The Matching in Practice network will have the next meeting in Budapest on 15 December. The event is free of charge for all participants, but registration is required, see the details below.

Péter Biró (Budapest, local organiser), Francis Bloch (Paris) and Yinghua He (Toulouse) 

Utku Ünver (Boston College)

8:30-9:00 registration 

9:00-10:00 Utku Ünver (Boston College): Efficient and Incentive Compatible Liver Exchange 

10:00-10:30 coffee break 

10:30-11:10 T. Mennle (University of Zurich): First Choice-Maximizing School Choice Mechanisms 

11:10-11:50 M.O. Afacan (Sabanci University, Turkey): School Choice with Voucher 

11:50-12:30 R. Hakimov (WZB Berlin): Iterative Versus Standard Deferred Acceptance: Experimental Evidence 

12:30-14:00 lunch break 

14:00-14:40 A.S. Nesterov (HSE, St. Petersburg): Testing different cardinal matching mechanisms in the field 

14:40-15:00 Zoltán Hermann (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Hungarian secondary school and higher education admissions data in the Databank 

15:00-16:00 roundtable talk on course allocation with Estelle Cantillon (Brussels) and Utku Unver (Boston) 

16:00-16:30 coffee break 

16:30-17:10 X. Hu (University of Southampton): Team Formation as an Incentive Device 

17:10-17:50 Inacio Bo (WZB Berlin): Assignment Maximization 

17:50-18:30 A. Teytelboym (University of Oxford): Refugee resettlement

The programme, list of registered participants and further details can be found here.

The workshop will be held in the main building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, room 'Kisterem'. Address: Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 9, 1051.

The recommended hotel is Hotel Zenit, (it is in the city centre, 5 mins walk from the venue, nearby a nice Christmas market at Vörösmarty tér). You can either book rooms directly through their website or through booking.com.

100 years of Matching Theory in Hungary, workshop held on 14 December.