Models of matching---in which agents are paired with one another to undertake transactions---have played an important role in contemporary economic theory. Matching algorithms have proven valuable in many real-life applications, including the assignment of students to schools, medical residents to hospitals, and organ donors to recipients. Matching theory has also helped illuminate thorny problems such as inequality and unemployment. The summer school will place greatest emphasis on design issues, but will touch on other aspects of matching as well.
List of speakers | |
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NAME | AFFILIATION |
Atila Abdulkadiroglu | Duke University |
Itai Ashlagi | MIT |
Eric Budish | Universty of Chicago |
Scott Duke Kominers | Harvard University |
Jacob D. Leshno | Columbia University |
Eric S. Maskin | Harvard University |
Paul R. Milgrom | Stanford University |
Elliott Peranson | National Matching Services, Inc |
Assaf Romm | Harvard University |
Alvin E. Roth | Stanford University |