Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains (May 2026)
You Can Teach an Old Drug New Tricks https://ericbudish.org/files/WSJ.pdf
Trust at Scale Seminar Slides (Also With Open Questions and Directions for Research) https://ericbudish.org/files/Trust-at-Scale-Seminar-Slides.pdf
Are Thousands of Medical Cures Hiding in Plain Sight?
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, no. 34222
Draft: February 2026 No PDF
Missing Markets for Innovation: Why Drug Repurposing Remains Undersupplied https://ericbudish.org/files/Missing-Markets-for-Innovation_-Why-Drug-Repurposing-Remains-Undersupplied-_-ITIF.pdf
Proposing an NIH High-Leverage Trials (HILT) Program: Large-scale Research for Repurposing and Supplements https://ericbudish.org/files/Jan2026_Stuart-Buck.pdf
2026 AEA Recent Developments Lectures
2026 AEA Recent Developments Lecture: The Economics of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains (January 2026)
University of Chicago FFIE Event Announcement
COVID-19: Five Years Later (November 2025)
Slides, May 2025 Published Version
Missing Markets for Innovation: Evidence from New Uses for Existing Drugs https://ericbudish.org/files/Missing-Markets-for-Innovation-February-2026.pdf
Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains https://ericbudish.org/files/Trust-at-Scale.pdf
R<1 as an Economic Constraint https://ericbudish.org/files/R_1-as-an-Economic-Constraint.pdf
Crypto’s Fatal Flaw: Trust, Scale, and the Economics of Blockchain
North Korea’s $1.5 billion crypto hack exposes bitcoin’s weakness https://ericbudish.org/files/2025-Feb-26-MarketWatch-Mark-Hulbert.pdf
Online Appendix https://ericbudish.org/files/Trust-at-Scale-Online-Appendix.pdf
Don’t get too excited, Bitcoin is still worthless https://ericbudish.org/files/2024-Dec-5-Telegraph-James-Baxter-Derrington.pdf
New Course Enrollment System Proposed to Decrease Stress and Increase Equity https://ericbudish.org/files/2024-Oct-24-The-Stanford-Daily-Supriya-Patel-1.pdf
Finance Experts Panel Conference: Panel on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains (October 2024) https://ericbudish.org/files/2024_Clark_Center_Finance_Experts_Panel_Slides_Cryptocurrencies_and_Blockchains.pdf
Clark Center Finance Experts Conference 2024 Program
Slides: Experts Panel Conference (October 2024) https://ericbudish.org/files/2024_Clark_Center_Finance_Experts_Panel_Slides_Cryptocurrencies_and_Blockchains.pdf
Crypto Brothers Front-Ran the Front-Runners https://ericbudish.org/files/2024-May-16-Bloomberg-Matt-Levine.pdf
Draft available at arXiv:2405.09173 https://ericbudish.org/files/The-Economic-Limits-of-Permissionless-Consensus.pdf
Tim Roughgarden Video Presentation
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market? https://ericbudish.org/files/A-Theory-of-Stock-Exchange-Competition-and-Innovation.pdf
Slides for 2023 Sveriges Riksbank 7th Annual Macroprudential Conference https://ericbudish.org/files/2023-Aug-29-Blockchain-Technology-and-Stablecoins-slides.pdf
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization https://ericbudish.org/files/An-Economic-Framework-for-Vaccine-Prioritization.pdf
Comment Letter on SEC Reg NMS Reforms Proposal https://ericbudish.org/files/Budish-Reg-NMS-Reform-Comment-Letter.pdf
Sources for Appendix C: 51% Attacks, Crypto Thefts and Crypto Collapses to Date https://ericbudish.org/files/Sources-for-Appendix-C-51-Percent-Attacks-Crypto-Thefts-and-Crypto-Collapses-to-Date-2.pdf
Wikipedia entry: Course allocation
Scholastic Magazines for Kids https://ericbudish.org/files/2023-Sept-Oct-Scholastic-Magazines-Mary-Kate-Frank.pdf
The Great Ticket Disaster https://ericbudish.org/files/2023-Oct-Scholastic-Scope-Magazine-Mary-Kate-Frank.pdf
Flow Trading https://ericbudish.org/files/Flow-Trading.pdf
Related Article in Scholastic Action Magazine https://ericbudish.org/files/2023-Sept-Scholastic-Action-Magazine-Mary-Kate-Frank.pdf
Blockchain Technology for Traditional Finance https://ericbudish.org/files/Budish_Sunderam_Blockchain-for-Traditional-Finance.pdf
Presentation at Sveriges Riksbank 7th Annual Macroprudential Conference (August 2023) https://ericbudish.org/files/Blockchain-Technology-and-Stablecoins-in-Traditional-Finance.pdf
The Economic Limits of Permissionless Consensus https://ericbudish.org/files/The-Economic-Limits-of-Permissionless-Consensus-Sept-2025.pdf
High-Frequency Trading and the Design of Financial Markets (July 2023)
How the Dysfunctional Ticketing Market Harms Artists & Fans — And What Can Be Done to Fix It https://ericbudish.org/files/2023-Jul-18-Billboard-Taylor-Mims.pdf
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond TED Conference
NBER New Directions in Market Design Conference, Spring 2023
Angry Taylor Swift Fans Push Lawmakers to Take on Ticketmaster https://ericbudish.org/files/2023-June-13-Washington-Post-Andrea-Salcedo-and-Julian-Mark.pdf
Practical Algorithms and Experimentally Validated Incentives for Equilibrium-based Fair Division (A-CEEI) https://ericbudish.org/files/Practical-Algorithms-and-Experimentally-Validated-Incentives-1.pdf
Market Design and Innovation (May 2023)
Al Roth’s Market Design Blog
Viewpoint: The Case for Frequent Batch Auctions (May 2023)
Discussion of ‘Would Order-by-Order Auctions be Competitive?’ at the SEC, 10th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation (May 2023)
Appendix, Theory of Stock Exchange https://ericbudish.org/files/A_Theory_of_Stock_Exchange_Competition_and_Innovation_Appendix.pdf
The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain (April 2023)
Two Choices for Selling Tickets https://ericbudish.org/files/2023-Apr-11-Conversable-Economist-Timothy-Taylor.pdf
Comment Letter on SEC Retail Investor Auctions Proposal https://ericbudish.org/files/Budish-Comment-letter-order-by-order-competition-March-2023.pdf
Market Design and Live Events
Beyoncé Is Going on Tour. Is Ticketmaster Ready? https://ericbudish.org/files/Beyonce_is_going_on_tour_Is_Ticketmaster_ready_The_Washington_Post.pdf
Appendix, Primary Market Auctions https://ericbudish.org/files/Online-Appendix.pdf
Replication Package
Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of “Bob the Broker”? https://ericbudish.org/files/Ticket-Auctions-Bob-the-Broker-AEJ-Micro-2023.pdf
Everyone Hates Ticketmaster. Is Everyone Wrong? https://ericbudish.org/files/Hating-Ticketmaster-long-predates-the-Taylor-Swift-fiasco.pdf
What an Unusual Auction Says About the Art Market https://ericbudish.org/files/Going_Dutch.pdf
Distributing a Billion Vaccines: COVAX Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities https://ericbudish.org/files/Distributing-a-Billion-Vaccines-COVAX.pdf
Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster Meltdown: What Happened? Who’s to Blame? https://ericbudish.org/files/Taylor-Swifts-Ticketmaster-meltdown_-What-happened_-Whos-to-blame_-The-Washington-Post.pdf
Chicago Trading Firms Will Feel Shock Waves From FTX Bankruptcy https://ericbudish.org/files/FTX-bankruptcy-will-affect-DRW-Jump-SME-Cboe-trading-_-Crains-Chicago-Business.pdf
Harvard Harris Lecture: The Economics of Cryptocurrencies (November 2022)
Appendix, Theory of Stock Exchange Earlier Version
How Costly is Trust in the Blockchain? https://ericbudish.org/files/How-costly-is-trust-in-the-blockchain_-Marginal-REVOLUTION.pdf
Slides, AEA Meeting (Jan 2022) https://ericbudish.org/files/Market-Design-for-Vaccine-Supply-Slides.pdf
Seminar Slides, UPenn (Aug 2017) https://ericbudish.org/files/Budish-Kessler-Management-Science-Talk-Slides.pdf
AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon Address, Will the Market Fix the Market?
Slides, 2018 NBER Summer Institute https://ericbudish.org/files/economic_limits_slides_nber2018.pdf
Slides, Flow Trading (June 2022) https://ericbudish.org/files/Flow-Trading-Slides.pdf
Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets https://ericbudish.org/files/Primary-Market-Auctions-for-Event-Tickets-Slides-_June_2018.pdf
Slides, An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization (June 2022) https://ericbudish.org/files/An-Economic-Framework-for-Vaccine-Prioritization-Slides.pdf
Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms Seminar Slides (Oct 2010) https://ericbudish.org/files/Designing-Random-Allocation-Mechanisms-Seminar-Slides-Oct-2010.pdf
Slides, Do Firms Underinvest in Long-Term Research? (Apr 2015) https://ericbudish.org/files/Do-Firms-Underinvest-Seminar-Slides.pdf
Policy Audience Slides (FCA, Feb 2016) https://ericbudish.org/files/HFT-Arms-Race-Policy-Audience-Slides-Feb-2016.pdf
ACM EC Panel Discussion Slides (June 2018) https://ericbudish.org/files/SPL-ACMEC-panel-Slides-June-2018.pdf
Transcript, Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up? No PDF
Transcript, Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over? No PDF
Behind the Celsius Sales Pitch was a Crypto Firm Built on Risk https://ericbudish.org/files/Behind-the-Celsius-Sales-Pitch-Was-a-Crypto-Firm-Built-on-Risk-WSJ.pdf
Freakonomics Podcast, Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over? https://ericbudish.org/files/Transcript_Does-the-Crypto-Crash-Mean-the-Blockchain-Is-Over-Freakonomics.pdf
June 2022 working paper version (see Section 7 on Bitcoin collapse scenarios) https://ericbudish.org/files/Economic-Limits-Bitcoin-Blockchain-June-2022.pdf
How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really? https://ericbudish.org/files/How-‘Trustless-Is-Bitcoin-Really_-The-New-York-Times.pdf
Can Market Participants Report their Preferences Accurately (Enough)? https://ericbudish.org/files/Can-Market-Participants-Report-Their-Preferences-Accurately-Enough.pdf
Northwestern University (May 2022) https://ericbudish.org/files/Economic-Limits-Bitcoin-Blockchain-June-2022.pdf
Cognomos
Wikipedia entry: A-CEEI
Wikipedia entry: EF1
Wikipedia entry: Maximin share
CV No PDF
The Economics of Cryptocurrencies (April 2022)
Exchange Message Data Codebook
Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading “Arms Race” https://ericbudish.org/files/Quantifying-the-High-Frequency-Trading-Arms-Race.pdf
AEA Presentation (Jan 2022) https://ericbudish.org/files/A-Theory-of-Stock-Exchange-Jan-2022-Presentation-Slides.pdf
Politicians Want to Ban Bot-Fueled Online SHopping. Experts Agree. https://ericbudish.org/files/2021-Nov-30-Mashable-Jack-Morse.pdf
Podcast Transcript https://ericbudish.org/files/2021-Nov-1-Slate-Seth-Stevenston.pdf
Data and Code Appendix https://ericbudish.org/files/Code_and_Data_Appendix.pdf
Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?
You Could Be Competing With Bots to Buy Gifts This Christmas https://ericbudish.org/files/When-it-comes-to-online-shopping-you-might-be-competing-with-super-speedy-greedy-bots_.pdf
Market Design https://ericbudish.org/files/Ch-10-Market-Design.pdf
Market Design for Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (August 2021)
How High-Frequency Traders Are Costing the Rest of Us Billions of Dollars Each Year https://ericbudish.org/files/Opinion_-How-high-frequency-traders-are...pdf
Measuring the 15-Microsecond Dash with Professor Eric “Batch” Budish
We Can Sustainably End the Pandemic with 7.2 Billion Vaccine Courses a Year: Chicago Booth’s Eric Budish https://ericbudish.org/files/economic_times_sustainably_end_pandemic_with_7.2_billion_vaccine_courses.pdf
Management Conference ’21: Perspectives on COVID-19
Seminar slides https://ericbudish.org/files/Quantifying_HFT_Races_Slides.pdf
Bitcoin Holders Have No Choice but to Trust in Chinese Crypto Miners https://ericbudish.org/files/marketwatch_bitcoin_holders_have_no_choice_but_to_trust_in_chinese_crypto_miners.pdf
How Can More Covid-19 Vaccines be Made Available? https://ericbudish.org/files/economist_how_can_more_vaccines_be_made_available.pdf
Online Appendix https://ericbudish.org/files/Online-appendix-1.pdf
Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability https://ericbudish.org/files/preparing_pandemic.pdf
The Big Pharma CEO Who’s Helping to Put an End to COVID-19 https://ericbudish.org/files/newsweek_big_pharma_ceo_helping_end_covid_19.pdf
Bigger Is Better When It Comes to Vaccine Production https://ericbudish.org/files/wsj_op-ed_bigger_is_better.pdf
Market Design to Accelerate Covid-19 Vaccine Supply https://ericbudish.org/files/market_design_accelerate_covid_19_vaccine_supply.pdf
How Is This Legal? https://ericbudish.org/files/Resale-ticket-market-leaves-fans-feeling-manipulated-and-angry.pdf
Virtual MD Seminar Presentation (March 2021)
Supplementary Materials https://ericbudish.org/files/Online-appendix.pdf
Think GameStop Is Wild? Meet Dogecoin, the Meme-Inspired Digital Currency That Began As a Joke and Is Now Worth Billions https://ericbudish.org/files/chicago_tribune_meet_dogecoin.pdf
William Watson: Carrots, Sticks and Sledgehammers https://ericbudish.org/files/financial_post_covid_policy_preference.pdf
Updated Slides for Talks in January 2021 https://ericbudish.org/files/maximize_utility_subject_r_1_slides.pdf
Nov 2020 NBER Working Paper No. w28093 https://ericbudish.org/files/maximize_utility_subject_r_1.pdf
The Future of Money
A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market? https://ericbudish.org/files/theory_stock_exchange_competition_innovation_w25855.pdf
FCA Occasional Paper landing page with brief summary and links https://ericbudish.org/files/fca_occasional_paper_landing_page_brief_summary_links.pdf
Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading ‘Arms Race’: A New Methodology and Estimates (June 2020)
June 2020 Addendum to Occasional Paper 50 https://ericbudish.org/files/addendum_occasional_paper_50.pdf
R<1 as an Economic Constraint (May 2020)
Slides, May 2020 https://ericbudish.org/files/r_1_slides_stiglerconferenceoncovid.pdf
An Improved Bound for the Shapley-Folkman Theorem https://ericbudish.org/files/shapley_folkman_theory.pdf
R<1 as an Economic Constraint (April 2020)
Slides, April 9th 2020 “IGM Conference on the Covid-19 Crisis” https://ericbudish.org/files/r_1_slides_igmconference.pdf
April 1st 2020 draft: “R<1 as an Economic Constraint: Can we 'Expand the Frontier' in the Fight Against Covid-19?" https://ericbudish.org/files/r_1_economic_constraint_WP_202031.pdf
IGM Covid-19 Research Page
Three Pillars of the Economic Policy Response to the Covid-19 Crisis https://ericbudish.org/files/three_pillars_economic_policy_response_covid_19_crisis.pdf
SEC Feb. 2020 Proposal re: Market Data Infrastructure https://ericbudish.org/files/sec_proposal_market_data_infrastructure.pdf
Money Stuff: Latency Arbitrage https://ericbudish.org/files/matt_levine_quantifyinghft.pdf
FCA Insight Brief Description of “Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading ‘Arms Race'” https://ericbudish.org/files/fca_insight_brief_description_paper_matteoaquilinapeteroneill.pdf
FCA Researchers Outline $5bn ‘Tax’ Imposed by High-Speed Trading https://ericbudish.org/files/17-FT-Philip-Stafford.pdf
UK Financial Conduct Authority Occasional Paper 50 https://ericbudish.org/files/uk_financial_conduct_authority_occasional_paper.pdf
Ultrafast Trading Costs Stock Investory Nearly $5 Billion a Year, Study Says https://ericbudish.org/files/wsj_ultrafast_trading_costs_investors.pdf
SEC Commissioner Jackson https://ericbudish.org/files/sec_commissioner_jackson_robertjjacksonjr.pdf
Frustrated with Event Ticketing? New Ventures Try to Help https://ericbudish.org/files/2019-Aug-24-AP-News-Jamie-Stengle.pdf
Slides as PDF https://ericbudish.org/files/Budish-FTC-Keynote-How-to-Fix-the-Market-for-Event-Tickets-Slides.pdf
PowerPoint Slides with Speaking Notes No PDF
Slides as PDF with Speaking Notes https://ericbudish.org/files/Budish-FTC-Keynote-How-to-Fix-the-Market-for-Event-Tickets-Slides-w-Speaking-Notes.updated-20231220.pdf
FTC Keynote Talk, How to Fix the Market for Event Tickets (June 2019)
The Trades Are Free, the Data Will Cost You https://ericbudish.org/files/trades_are_free_data_will_cost.pdf
Presentation on Bitcoin Research Atlanta Fed Financial Markets Conference (May 2019) https://ericbudish.org/files/atlanta_fed_transcript.pdf
Response to ESMA’s Call for Evidence re Periodic Auctions https://ericbudish.org/files/response_esmas_call_evidence_periodic_auctions.pdf
AFA panel “Blockchain: Myth and Reality” (January 2019)
Bitcoin Is Less Secure Than Most People Think https://ericbudish.org/files/marginal_revolution_bitcoin_less_secure_than_people_think.pdf
Transcript and audio recording, Atlanta Fed
SEC Commissioner Calls for Regulators to Bolster Market Oversight https://ericbudish.org/files/20-WSJ-Gretchen-Morgenson.pdf
Strategy-proofness in the Large https://ericbudish.org/files/strategyproofness_large.pdf
Why Bitcoin Will Never Replace Gold https://ericbudish.org/files/barrons_why_bitcoin_will_never_replace_gold.pdf
Rental Attacks Mean That Blockchains Must Evolve or Die https://ericbudish.org/files/4-Techcrunch-Abraham-Othman.pdf
Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of “Bob the Broker”? https://ericbudish.org/files/primarymarket_auctions_event_tickets_07-18-2018.pdf
Appendix, Strategy Proofness in the Large https://ericbudish.org/files/supplementary_appendix_strategyproofness_large.pdf
Bitcoin Looks More Like Gold Than a Currency https://ericbudish.org/files/bloomberg_bitcoin_looks_more_like_gold_than_currency.pdf
Bitcoin’s Inherent Economics Could Keep It from Ever Being Very Important https://ericbudish.org/files/mit_technology_review_bitcoins_inherent_economics_keeps_growth_constrained.pdf
June 2018 NBER Working Paper version (see early versions of equations [1]-[3] and Bitcoin collapse scenarios) https://ericbudish.org/files/economic_limits_bitcoin_blockchain.pdf
Performance Ticket Auctions: Going, Going, Gone https://ericbudish.org/files/nber_digest_performance_ticket_auctions.pdf
Podcast Transcript https://ericbudish.org/files/Transcript_-Why-Is-the-Live-Event-Ticket-Market-So-Screwed-Up-Freakonomics.pdf
Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?
Performance Ticket Auctions: Going, Going, Gone https://ericbudish.org/files/2017-Dec-The-NBER-Digest-Laurent-Belsie.pdf
Fans Watch Taylor Swift, Economists Watch the Fans
Course Match: A Large-Scale Implementation of Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes for Combinatorial Allocation https://ericbudish.org/files/3-Course-Match-A-Large-Scale-Implementation-of-Approximate-Competitive-Equilibrium-from-Equal-Incomes-for-Combinatorial-Allocation-2017-Operations-Research.pdf
AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon Address, Will the Market Fix the Market? (January 2017) https://ericbudish.org/files/Will-the-Market-Fix-the-Market-Slides-AEA-AFA-Joint-Luncheon.pdf
Transcript, Will the Market Fix the Market?
2016 Working Paper Version https://ericbudish.org/files/strategyproofness_large_early-version.pdf
Appendix, Patents and Research Investments https://ericbudish.org/files/patents_online_appendix.pdf
Patents and Research Investments: Assessing the Empirical Evidence https://ericbudish.org/files/patents_research_investments.pdf
Response to RFI on the Evolution of the U.S. Treasury Market Structure https://ericbudish.org/files/response_rfi_evolution_us_treasury_market_structure.pdf
Comment Letter on Proposed Commission Interpretation of One Millisecond as De Minimis https://ericbudish.org/files/comment_letter_proposed_commission_interpretation_one_millisecond_de_minimis.pdf
IEX Comment Letter https://ericbudish.org/files/iex_comment_letter.pdf
Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development https://ericbudish.org/files/new_york_times_why_preventing_cancer_is_not_the_priority.pdf
Appendix, High-Frequency Trading Arms Race https://ericbudish.org/files/online_appendix_high_frequency_trading_arms_race.pdf
The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response https://ericbudish.org/files/high_frequency_trading_arms_race.pdf
What Cures Are We Missing Out On? https://ericbudish.org/files/bloomberg_what_cures_are_we_missing_out_on.pdf
Seminar Slides (Sept 2015) https://ericbudish.org/files/high_frequency_trading_arms_race_slides_seminar.pdf
Do Firms Underinvest in Long-Term Research? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials https://ericbudish.org/files/do_firms_underinvest_longterm_research.pdf
Frequent but Inefficient https://ericbudish.org/files/economist_frequent_but_inefficient.pdf
Technology Brings Choice to MBA Students https://ericbudish.org/files/ft_technology_brings_choice_to_mba_students.pdf
Patents That Kill https://ericbudish.org/files/economist_patents_that_kill.pdf
Slowing Down the Stock Market https://ericbudish.org/files/bloomberg_slowing_down_the_stock_market.pdf
Slides, Jerusalem Summer School (June 2014) https://ericbudish.org/files/combinatorial-assignment-theory-data-practice-jerusalemsummerschool2014.pdf
SEC Chair White Speech https://ericbudish.org/files/sec_chair_white_speech_maryjowhite.pdf
Implementation Details for Frequent Batch Auctions: Slowing Down Markets to the Blink of an Eye https://ericbudish.org/files/implementation_details_frequent_batch_auctions.pdf
Everything You Need to Know About High-Frequency Trading https://ericbudish.org/files/atlantic_everything_you_need_to_know_about_hft.pdf
Professor Proposes Slowing Down Automated Trading https://ericbudish.org/files/chicago_tribune_ameetsachdev.pdf
High-Speed Traders Still Trading Faster than Low-Speed Traders https://ericbudish.org/files/2014-Mar-18-Bloomberg-Matt-Levine.pdf
New York Attorney General Speech https://ericbudish.org/files/ny_ag_speech.pdf
Declawing Speed Traders Is Goal of Stock Market Revamp Proposal https://ericbudish.org/files/bloomberg_declawing_speed_traders_is_goal_of_stock_market_revamp_proposal.pdf
CFTC Comment Letter https://ericbudish.org/files/cftc_comment_letter.pdf
CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee Meeting
Is high frequency trading good for financial markets?
Gaming Wharton’s Course Scheduling System Just Got Tougher https://ericbudish.org/files/bloomberg_wharton_mba_course_scheduling_system.pdf
Why Aren’t There More Cancer Vaccines? https://ericbudish.org/files/slate_blame_patent_law_for_lack_of_cancer_vaccines.pdf
The Need for Less Speed https://ericbudish.org/files/ft_timharford_the_need_for_less_speed.pdf
Slides, Matching in Practice Conference https://ericbudish.org/files/matching_slides_matchinginpracticeconference.pdf
Appendix, Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms https://ericbudish.org/files/online_appendices_designing_random_allocation_mechanisms.pdf
Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and Applications https://ericbudish.org/files/designing_random_allocation_mechanisms.pdf
Matching “Versus” Mechanism Design https://ericbudish.org/files/matching_mechanism_design.pdf
Seminar Slides (Nov 2012) https://ericbudish.org/files/SPL-Seminar-Slides-Nov-2012.pdf
Appendix, Multi-Unit Assignment Problem https://ericbudish.org/files/multi_unit_assignment_problem_appendix.pdf
The Multi-Unit Assignment Problem: Theory and Evidence from Course Allocation at Harvard https://ericbudish.org/files/multi_unit_assignment_problem.pdf
Appendix, Combinatorial Assignment Problem
Implementation at Wharton
The Combinatorial Assignment Problem: Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes https://ericbudish.org/files/combinatorial_assignment_problem.pdf
Wharton “Course Match” website
2010 Working Paper Version https://ericbudish.org/files/combinatorial_assignment_problem_working_paper.pdf
Finding Approximate Competitive Equilibria: Efficient and Fair Course Allocation https://ericbudish.org/files/finding_approximate_competitive_equilibria.pdf
Slides, Economic Theory Seminar (May 2010) https://ericbudish.org/files/combinatorial_assignment_problem_slides_economictheoryseminar-1.pdf
Slides, Columbia Seminar (Nov 2009) https://ericbudish.org/files/comboassignment_bothpapers_Seminar-Slides-Nov-2009.pdf
Slides, Job Market Talk (Feb 2009) https://ericbudish.org/files/ApproxCEEI_JobTalkSlides-Feb-2009.pdf
Buy Prices in Online Auctions: Irrationality on the Internet? https://ericbudish.org/files/buy_prices.pdf