School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach
This paper formulates the “school choice problem” as a mechanism design (MD) problem and analyze some of the existing school choice plans in this light. They show the shortcomings of the analyzed...
View ArticleWeek of August 24, 2009
I have been awfully busy, participating in a week-long workshop at MSRI. I do not know if I told you already, but I am on sabbatical this year, and will be coming and going between SoCal and the Bay...
View ArticleWeek of August 31st
More (but not much) on the paper “School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach” (SC) and beyond… Hey, at least the second author is Turkish…do you know him? HAHAHA! In SC they propose mechanism 1:...
View ArticleWeek of September 21, 2009
So I claimed in my message to the CCMS executive board (which I just forwarded to you) that we had a well developed research plan. I think that that was more or less correct, but it may be a good idea...
View ArticleOctober 1st
Hello! After a long absence, I’m going to post a few things. First, I will post a link to the Wiki page about Mechanism Design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design). Second is a link to a...
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Week of October 5, 2009
I am thinking of creating a new post category called “academic discourse” so that we do not feel limited to “weekly ramblings” Anyways, my goal this week is somewhat modest. I will be making a list of...
View ArticleWeek of November 23, 2009
OK, I am back on the wagon. I need to come up with a title and a one-sentence description for the REU advertisement. They want these and a longer description by December 1. I will try to write it out...
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Week of November 30, 2009
I started the long description today. Please feel free to modify and improve In particular it is about 470 words now and it will most likely need to go down to about 300.
View ArticleWeek of November 30th
I edited the REU Long Description document… I’ll also e-mail you a MS word version with track changes in a minute.
View ArticleInterlaced Mechanism Design
Hihi, So, this is my name for our “new” approach! We can use one of the mechanisms we have been looking at and “weave in” or “interlace” an evaluatory step between each iteration of the mechanism...
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