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SUMMARY:Dorothea Kubler (WZB Social Science Center Berlin) - "How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments With Online Booking Systems"
DESCRIPTION:CREST Microeconomics Seminar :  \n\nTime: 12:15 pm – 1:30pm\nDate: 11th Sep. 2019\nPlace: Room 3001.\nDorothea Kubler (WZB Social Science Center Berlin) – “How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments With Online Booking Systems” with Rustamdjan Hakimov\, C.-Philipp Heller and Morimitsu Kurino\nAbstract: “Allocating appointment slots is presented as a new application for market design. We\nconsider online booking systems that are commonly used by public authorities to allocate\nappointments for driver’s licenses\, visa interviews\, passport renewals\, etc. We document that\nblack markets for appointments have developed in many parts of the world. Scalpers book\nthe appointments that are offered for free and sell the slots to appointment seekers. We model\nthe existing first-come-first-served booking system and propose an alternative system. The\nalternative system collects applications for slots for a certain time period and then randomly\nallocates slots to applicants. We investigate the two systems under conditions of low and high\ndemand for slots. The theory predicts and lab experiments confirm that scalpers profitably\nbook and sell slots under the current system with high demand\, but that they are not active\nin the proposed new system under both demand conditions.” \nOrganizers: \n\n\nRoxana Fernandez Machado (CREST)\, Marie Laure Allain (CREST)\, and Linda Schilling (CREST)\nSponsors:\nCREST\nLunch registration:\nfood provided\, no registration needed\n\n  \n
URL:https://crest.science/event/dorothea-kubler-wzb-social-science-center-berlin-how-to-avoid-black-markets-for-appointments-with-online-booking-systems/
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