Platform Markets

Program

Online and Matching-Based Market Design

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Monday, Sept. 16 – Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019

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1:20 – 1:30 p.m.

Opening Remarks

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Computational Complexity of Matching in Ride Sharing

Amin Saberi (Stanford University)

2:15 – 3 p.m.

TBD

Michael Schwarz (Microsoft)

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Driving Efficiencies in the Freight Industry

Max Schmeiser (Convoy)

4:15 – 5:15 p.m.

Ridesharing Panel

Michael Ostrovsky,
Michael Schwarz

5:15 – 6:15 p.m.

Reception

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 9:45 a.m.

The Economics of the Bitcoin Payment System

Jacob Leshno (University of Chicago)

9:45 – 10:30 a.m.

Marketplaces and Product Quality

Susan Athey (Stanford University)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 – 11:45 a.m.

Redesigning the Kidney Exchange Market

Itai Ashlagi (Stanford University)

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School)

2:30 – 3:15 p.m.

Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry

Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics & Princeton University)

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 4:30 p.m.

Facilitating the Search for Partners on Matching Platforms

Yash Kanoria (Columbia University)

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Lunch

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 9:45 a.m.

Stochastic Matching with Few Queries

Soheil Behnezhad (University of Maryland)

9:45 – 10:30 a.m.

Incentivizing Exploration among Behavioral Agents with Unbiased Histories

Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 – 11:45 a.m.

Clearing Matching Markets Efficiently: Informative signals and Match Recommendations

Peng Shi (University of Southern California)

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Artificial Currencies

Sid Banerjee (Cornell University)

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Lunch

2:30 – 3:15 p.m.

Matching Algorithms for Blood Donation

John Dickerson (University of Maryland)

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 4:30 p.m.

Optimal Growth in Two-Sided Markets

Garret Van Ryzin (Cornell Tech)

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.

Matching Markets: Managing Scale and Accuracy

Nicolas Stier,
-Moses

10:15 – 11 a.m.

Quality Externalities on Platforms: The Case of Airbnb

Peter Coles (Airbnb)

11 – 11:30 a.m.

Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Platforms and Marketplaces: Past Lessons and Future Possibilities

Simon Rothman (Greylock Partners),
Steve Tadelis (UC Berkeley)