Institutional Design

Participatory Budgeting and Donor Coordination with Haris Aziz

Episode Transcript
More info about the My Community Project
Haris' academic website
Haris' papers that we discuss:
Participatory Budgeting: Models and Approaches
Coordinating Monetary Contributions in Participatory Budgeting
Portioning Using Ordinal Preferences: Fairness and Efficiency

Liquid Democracy, Smart Voting, and Itero with Rachael Colley

Liquid democracy is a voting system that allows voters to choose to either vote directly on an issue or delegate their voting power to another voter. Rachael Colley and I discuss the pros and cons of liquid democracy and her extension Smart Voting which allows voters to cast more complex and expressive votes. We finish with discussing an interactive voting platform she created called Itero.
Links:
Rachael's academic website
First Paper: Smart Voting (and the awesome poster we mention)
Second Paper: Itero: An Online Iterative Voting Application (and the Itero platform)
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Forecasting Competitions and Prediction Markets with Rupert Freeman

Nick interviews Rupert Freeman on the design of forecasting competitions that incentivise all forecasters to report their honest predictions, and prediction markets that can use crowdsourced outcome determination without introducing new incentives for market manipulation. 
Links:
Rupert Freeman's personal website
First Paper: Incentive-Compatible Forecasting Competitions
Second Paper: Crowdsourced Outcome Determination in Prediction Markets
Augur, the crypto based prediction market we briefly discuss
Another paper we discuss: Prediction Mechanisms That Do Not Incentivize Undesirable Actions
Episode Transcript
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Kidney Exchange and Human Values with Rachel Freedman

In the first episode of the Institutional Design podcast, Nick Anyos and Rachel Freedman discuss her paper on modifying the kidney donor matching algorithms to factor in moral values of humans.
Links from the discussion:
Rachel Freedman’s personal website.
The paper we discuss: Adapting a Kidney Exchange Algorithm to Align with Human Values
A 5 minute video by Rachel on the paper.
Episode Transcript
Source for the fact check on blood type and race.
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