Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Author "Roth, Alvin"
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The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
Coles, Peter Andrew; Cawley, John; Levine, Phillip B.; Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E.; Siegfried, John J. (American Economic Association, 2010)This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market ... -
Jumping the Gun: Imperfections and Institutions Related to the Timing of Market Transactions
Roth, Alvin (American Economic Association, 1994) -
Market Culture: How Rules Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance
Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E. (American Economic Association, 2009)Many markets encounter difficulty maintaining a thick marketplace because they experience transactions made at dispersed times. To address such problems, many markets try to establish norms concerning when offers can be ... -
Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions: Reply to Priest (2010)
Roth, Alvin (University of Chicago Press, 2012)This note describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college ... -
New Challenges in Multihospital Kidney Exchange
Ashlagi, Itai; Roth, Alvin (American Economic Association, 2012-05)The growth of kidney exchange presents new challenges for the design of kidney exchange clearinghouses. The players now include directors of transplant centers, who see sets of patient-donor pairs, and can choose to reveal ... -
Nonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney-Paired Donation-Revisited
Ashlagi, I; Gilchrist, Duncan; Rees, M; Roth, Alvin (Wiley, 2011-04-26)Since 2008, kidney exchange in America has grown in part from the incorporation of nondirected donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed ... -
Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate
Kessler, Judd; Roth, Alvin (American Economic Association, 2012-08)Organ donations from deceased donors provide the majority of transplanted organs in the United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not ... -
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin; Ünver, M (MDPI AG, 2013-06-19)Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a ...