Residency Matching Problem
I have always found the residency matching problem very interesting. In this market there are hospitals and medical students, and both sides of the market have strict preferences. There is no currency...
View ArticleBeyond the Court: The Trade Market in the NBA
I love to watch sports; it is one of my activities to do when I am not worrying about final projects, prelims, and extracurriculars at Cornell. Sports are generally seen as a form of escapism from our...
View ArticleCollege Recruitment as a Market
The entire process of college recruitment is extremely complex with hundreds of variables. Ultimately it can be generalized as a market where students allocate their tuition and presence to...
View ArticleMarket for Office Furniture
Context: All offices purchase furniture, generally this is done by having office staff submit requests to their organization (a university department, or other governing body which manages other...
View ArticleModern Romance: Online Dating as a two-sided market
The dynamics of dating have been discussed and dissected extensively, but in this post we can hopefully gain some new insights into it by viewing it as a networked market. Online dating specifically,...
View ArticleThe MLB Draft
The MLB Draft lasts for 40 rounds and the teams are allowed 1 pick per round. The teams are given picks in the order of worst record to best record from the previous season’s standings. This allows...
View ArticleCollege Admissions as a Market: Tournaments, Revealed Preferences,...
Every year, millions of (typically) high-school seniors submit tailored college applications, entering competition pools at higher-education institutions of their choosing. This well-known market of...
View ArticleBaseball card market
A market many kids participate in is the ‘baseball card market’. This is the market in which children (agents) have baseball cards and are willing to trade said cards with each other. In the market I’m...
View ArticleThe market for online video content – YouTube
The market that I have chosen to study is the market for online media content on the video streaming platform YouTube. In this market, the “sellers” are the content creators on the platform. In order...
View ArticleRelationships as a market
In this blog, I will examine relationships abstractly viewed as a market. Specifically, it will focus on intimate relationships that will be taken to span attraction, dating, courting and marriage...
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