Call for papers: 4th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO '24)

 Nick Arnosti sends along the following call for papers (with a deadline on Wednesday):

We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the 4th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO '24). The conference will be held from October 29-31, 2024 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

EAAMO '24 will bring together academics and practitioners from diverse disciplines and sectors. The conference will highlight work along the research-to-practice pipeline aimed at improving access to opportunity for historically underserved and disadvantaged communities, as well as mitigating harms concerning inequitable and unsafe outcomes. In particular, we seek contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with a grounding in the social sciences and humanistic studies.

Submissions can include research, survey, and position papers as well as problem- and practice-driven submissions by academics and practitioners from any disciplines or sectors alike. 

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: 17 April 2024, AoE

Submission Notification: 18 July 2024

Paper Submission Page: https://eaamo24.hotcrp.com/u/0/

Event Dates: 29 October - 31 October 2024

The conference will offer opportunities to engage with leading experts, share innovative research and practices, and network with peers. We look forward to your participation, and we encourage you to disseminate the Call for Papers to any interested colleagues.

 For any further inquiries about the conference, please contact the Program Chairs at pc24@eaamo.org.

 Sincerely,

EAAMO '24 Organizers 

 Program Chairs: 

Nick Arnosti, University of Minnesota
Caterina Calsamiglia, IPEG

Salvador Ruiz-Correa, IPIYCT

John P. Dickerson, Arthur & University of Maryland

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies summer school in economics (and cs)

 Here's the announcement for this summer's summer school in Economics in Jerusalem (with the program and list of speakers updated on April 8).

The 34th Advanced School in Economic Theory and Computer Science Sun, 23/06/2024 to Thu, 27/06/2024

General Director: Eric Maskin, Harvard University

Organizers: Elchanan Ben-Porath, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University, Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Contemporary economic theorists and computer scientists have a large research agenda in common. Topics of mutual interest include the design of contracts, auctions, and information structures, as well as the use of algorithms to achieve fair allocations. This summer school will explore all these topics and more

Speakers:

Fair division of indivisible items: Uriel Feige, Weizmann Institute of Science

Algorithmic contract design: Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University

Multidimensional mechanism design: Sergiu Hart, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Revenue maximization from samples: Yannai Gonczarowski, Harvard University

Fairness in learning and prediction: Katrina Ligett, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Matching markets: From theory to practice: Assaf Romm, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Economic aspects of Blockchains: Aviv Zohar, Assaf Romm The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

MATCH-UP 2024 7th International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences, Oxford, 9 - 11 September, 2024

 Here's the announcement and call for papers of the latest edition of the Match-Up series of conferences.

MATCH-UP 2024   7th International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences 

University of Oxford, United Kingdom   9 - 11 September, 2024

 "MATCH-UP 2024 is the 7th workshop in an interdisciplinary and international workshops in the series on matching under preferences. It will take place on 9 - 11 September 2024, hosted by the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

"Matching problems with preferences occur in widespread applications such as the assignment of school-leavers to universities, junior doctors to hospitals, students to campus housing, children to schools, kidney transplant patients to donors and so on. The common thread is that individuals have preference lists over the possible outcomes and the task is to find a matching of the participants that is in some sense optimal with respect to these preferences.

"The remit of this workshop is to explore matching problems with preferences from the perspective of algorithms and complexity, discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization, game theory, mechanism design and economics, and thus a key objective is to bring together the research communities of the related areas.

"List of Topics

"The matching problems under consideration include, but are not limited to:

• Two-sided matchings involving agents on both sides (e.g., college admissions, medical resident allocation, job markets, and school choice)
• Two-sided matchings involving agents and objects (e.g., house allocation, course allocation, project allocation, assigning papers to reviewers, and school choice)
• One-sided matchings (e.g., roommate problems, coalition formation games, and kidney exchange)
• Multi-dimensional matchings (e.g., 3D stable matching problems)
• Matching with payments (e.g., assignment game)
• Online and stochastic matching models (e.g., Google Ads, ride sharing, Match.com)
• Other recent applications (e.g., refugee resettlement, food banks, social housing, and daycare)

Conference in Jerusalem, in solidarity with Israeli academics

 I'm expecting to be back in California later today.  I gave three talks while in Israel, and met with many people, but the proximate cause of my trip was the economics conference organized by Effi Benmelech on behalf of Northwestern's Crown Family Israel Center for Innovation. It was organized as an expression of support for Israeli academics.

Here is the program

Wednesday, March 20 | Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem

9:00-9:15 Welcome  Effi Benmelech, Northwestern University

9:15-10:00 Amir Yaron, Governor of the Bank of Israel

10:00-10:15 Break

Macro Session

10:15-11:00 Moving to Fluidity: Regional Growth and Labor Market Churn  Eran Hoffman, Hebrew University

11:00-11:45 Policy Design and Rates of Convergence in Learning Models  Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University

11:45-12:45 Lunch

Applied Micro Session

12:45-13:30 Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT  Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University

13:30-14:15 Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right  Roee Levy Tel Aviv University

14:15-14:30 Break

14:30-15:15 Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation  Edward Glaeser, Harvard University

15:15-15:30 Break

Matching Markets Session

15:30-16:15 Organ Allocation for Transplants, Around the World and in Israel: Part I  Al Roth, Stanford University

16:15-17:00 Organ Allocation for Transplants, Around the World and in Israel: Part II  Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University

Thursday, March 21 Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem

Industrial Organization Session

9:15-10:00 Selling Subscriptions Liran Einav, Stanford University

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:00 An Empirical Analysis of Merger Efficiencies  Alon Eizenberg, Hebrew University

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 Pharmaceutical Advertising in Dynamic Equilibrium  Ariel Pakes, Harvard University

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Economic History Session

13:00-13:45 Land Privatization and Business Credit: The Response of Bankruptcies to Land Enclosures in England 1750-1830  Karine van der Beek, Ben-Gurion University

13:45-14:00 Break

14:00-14:45 Diversity, Pluralism and Tolerance: The Roots of Economic Progress  Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University

14:45-15:00 Break

Experimental Economics

15:00-15:45 Describing Deferred Acceptance to Participants: Experimental Analysis  Yannai Gonczarowski, Harvard University

15:45 Adjourn

SITE 2024 Conference: Call For Papers for Summer 2024

 Now is the time to be thinking of submitting papers for the summer sessions at Stanford. (Some deadlines are in April.)

Here's the call for papers:

SITE 2024 Conference: Call For Papers

Stanford Economics is proud to host its annual Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) Conference from July 1 to September 11 2024. SITE sponsors sessions that encompass both economic theory and empirical work and cover a broad range of topics. It brings together established and emerging scholars to present leading-edge economic research, to educate, and to collaborate.

These sessions are scheduled:

1. Gender  Monday, July 1, 2024, 8:00am - Tuesday, July 2, 2024, 5:00pm
2. Empirical Implementation of Theoretical Models of Strategic Interaction and Dynamic Behavior  Thursday, July 11, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, July 12, 2024, 5:00pm
3. Trade and Finance  Thursday, July 25, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, July 26, 2024, 5:00pm
4. Fiscal Sustainability  Thursday, August 1, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, August 2, 2024, 5:00pm
5. Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets  Monday, August 5, 2024, 8:00am - Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 5:00pm
6. The Micro and Macro of Labor Markets  Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 8:00am - Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 5:00pm
7. Political Economic Theory  Thursday, August 8, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, August 9, 2024, 5:00pm
8. Market Design  Thursday, August 8, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, August 9, 2024, 5:00pm
9. Market Failures and Public Policy  Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 8:00am - Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00pm
10. Empirical Market Design  Thursday, August 15, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, August 16, 2024, 5:00pm
11. Climate Finance and Banking  Monday, August 19, 2024, 8:00am - Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 8:00am
12. Frontiers of Macroeconomic Research Wednesday, August 21, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, August 23, 2024, 5:00pm
13. Experimental Economics  Thursday, August 22, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, August 23, 2024, 5:00pm
14. Psychology and Economics Monday, August 26, 2024, 8:00am - Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 9:00pm
15. The Labor Market Experience of Vulnerable Populations of Workers  Monday, August 26, 2024, 8:00am - 5:00pm
16. Housing and Urban Economics  Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, August 30, 2024, 5:00pm
17. The Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility  Wednesday, September 4, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, September 6, 2024, 5:00pm
18. New Research in Asset Pricing  Wednesday, September 4, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, September 6, 2024, 5:00pm
19. The Economics of Transparency  Thursday, September 5, 2024, 8:00am - Friday, September 6, 2024, 5:00pm
20. Financial Regulation  Monday, September 9, 2024, 8:00am - Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 5:00pm

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