Next week I’ll be giving a keynote lecture and also participating in a panel discussion on “Allocation Problems in health care” at the MaCCI Law & Economics Conference on The Law and Economics of Market Design. From the conference website:
The conference will provide an international platform for exchange and discussion between academic researchers and practitioners in public authorities, legal counsel, and economic consultancies.
The MaCCI Law and Economics Conference is organized for the eighth time since the inaugural edition in 2011. It is our ambition to stimulate and disseminate research in the field of market design, competition, regulation, and innovation policy.
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from White & Case and the EPoS Collaborative Research Center for this year’s annual law and economics conference.
This year the topic is “The Law and Economics of Market Design”. The conference will consist of 4 panel discussions, two keynote lectures and will cover the following topics.
- Design of digital platforms
- Managing private and public procurement
- Designing infrastructure markets (telecom, traffic, energy)
- Allocation problems in health care (organ exchange)
Keynote Speakers
Duke Law School, Durham
University of Cologne and University of Maryland
For the keynote address, I’ll discuss repugnant transactions, or “taboo trades” (something I also recently discussed on Brian Frye’s Ipse Dixit podcast) and how the law responds to such transactions. I’ll focus on egg, sperm, and organ “donation” and, if I have time, briefly discuss blood, plasma, and bone marrow donation. (I’ve put “donation” in quotes because, consistent with common practice, I’m using the word donation to refer to transfers without regard to whether the donor was compensated).
For the health care allocation panel, I’ll discuss Global Kidney Exchange (prior blog posts on Global Kidney Exchange are collected here).
The full conference program is here.
