Organizing Committee
- Gabrielle Demange
Paris School of Economics - Alfred Galichon
New York University - Robert Mccann
University of Toronto - Larry Samuelson
Yale University
Abstract
A short history of equilibrium computation. The computation of economic equilibrium is making a spectacular comeback in economics, mathematics and computer science. The availability of massive real-time datasets and the affordability of computing power, including parallel computation, has made it possible to implement and build on an effort that had been stalled since the end of the 1970s. But even more than the new technical possibilities, it is the novel applications to online platforms and market design tools that led to the surge of interest in computation. Pricing engines like Uber’s, matchmakers like OkCupid, allocation mechanisms like those that are used by public school districts – all need to compute an equilibrium problem.
While the problem of equilibrium computation is hard in general, a particular instance of the problem, namely the gross substitutes property, makes it analytically tractable and computable in practice, while able to cover a large number of applications including optimal transport, multinomial choice models, matching, hedonic models, and trade equilibrium problems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the frontier of the current knowledge in this topic, consolidate the theory, present state-of-the-art applications, and present the latest algorithms. It will connect several different mathematical fields:
- 1. Optimal transport
- 2. Stable marriage problem and lattice theory
- 3. Systems of nonlinear equations on networks, M-maps
- 4. Discrete convexity
A number of introductory lectures will set the stage before moving on to the presentation of research papers.
Confirmed Speakers & Participants
Talks will be presented virtually or in-person as indicated in the schedule below.
- Speaker
- Poster Presenter
- Attendee
- Virtual Attendee
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Elie Alhajjar
US Military Academy
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Elizabeth Baldwin
Oxford University
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Hema D
Lady Doak College
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Gabrielle Demange
Paris School of Economics
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Alfred Galichon
New York University
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Octavia Ghelfi
New York University
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Faruk Gul
Princeton University
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John Hatfield
University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business
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Md Abu Helal
The University of Texas at Dallas
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Nicole Immorlica
Microsoft Research
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Gleb Koshevoy
IITP, Russia
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Elias Koutsoupias
University of Oxford
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Jacob Leshno
Chicago Booth
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Ilse Lindenlaub
Yale University
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Brendan Lucier
Microsoft Research, New England
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Robert Mccann
University of Toronto
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Ismael Mourifié
University of Toronto
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Renato Paes Leme
Google
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Abhishek Ray
George Mason University
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Ana Reynoso
University of Michigan
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Larry Samuelson
Yale University
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Ismail Sanni
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT KAISERSLAUTERN
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Maxime Sylvestre
École normale supérieure
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Eva Tardos
Cornell University
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Ngoc Mai Tran
University of Texas at Austin
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Rakesh Vohra
University of Pennsylvania
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Jonathan Weinstein
Washington University in St. Louis