Market Design Working Group.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Market Design, directed by Susan Athey and Parag A. Pathak of NBER and MIT, met in Cambridge on October 28 and 29, 2011. These papers were discussed:

* Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College, and Tobias B. Switzer, U.S. Air Force, "Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at United States Military Academy"

* John W. Hatfield, Stanford University, and Scott Duke Kominers, University of Chicago, "Multilateral Matching"

* Eric Budish, University of Chicago, and Eduardo M. Azevedo, Harvard University, "Strategyproofness in the Large as a Desideratum for Market Design"

* Clayton Featherstone, Harvard University, "A Rank-Based Refinement of Ordinal Efficiency and a New (but Familiar) Class of Ordinal Assignment Mechanisms"

* Haoxiang Zhu, Stanford University, "Do Dark Pools Harm Price Discovery?"

* Mark Satterthwaite, Northwestern University; Steven R. Williams, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Konstantinos E. Zachariadis, London School of Economics, "Price Discovery"

* Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley and eBay Research Labs, and Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER, "Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment"

* Tayfun Sonmez and Utku Unver, Boston College, "Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange"

* Itai Ashlagi and David Gamarnik, MIT, and Alvin E. Roth, Harvard University and NBER, "The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange"

* Susan Athey; Ittai Abraham and Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research; and Michael Grubb...