Market design working group.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Market Design, directed by Susan Athey and Parag Pathak of NBER and MIT, met in Cambridge on October 19 and 20, 2012. These papers were discussed:

* William Fuchs, University of California, Berkeley, and Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford University, "Costs and Benefits of Dynamic Trading in a Lemons Market"

* Jacob Leshno, Microsoft Research, "Dynamic Matching in Overloaded Systems"

* Kenneth Hendricks, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER, and Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin, "Selecting Bidders Via Non-Binding Bids When Entry Is Costly"

* Sergiu Hart and Noam Nisan, Hebrew University, "The Menu-Size Complexity of Auctions"

* Yeon-Koo Che, Columbia University; Jinwoo Kim, Yonsei University; and Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University, "Efficient Assignment with Interdependent Values"

* Itai Ashlagi, MIT, and Alvin Roth, Stanford University and NBER, "Kidney Exchange in Time and Space"

* Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver, Boston College, "Welfare Consequences of Transplant Organ Allocation Policies"

* Peter Cramton, University of Maryland; Ulrich Gall, Stanford University; Pacharasut Sujarittanonta, Cramton Associates LLC; and Robert Wilson, Stanford University, "The Applicant Auction for Top-Level Domains: Resolving Conflicts Efficiently"

* Lawrence Ausubel, University of Maryland; Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER; and Paul Milgrom and Ilya Segal, Stanford University, "Incentive Auction Rules Proposal"

* Aditya Bhave and Eric Budish, University of Chicago, "Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of...