The Market Design Initiative (MDI) was established within Columbia’s Department of Economics and Program for Economic Research (PER) in 2018. The goal of MDI is to foster research in Market Design at Columbia and the greater NYC area. MDI’s main activities are to organize an annual Market Design conference and workshops, and to host visitors. The director of MDI is Yeon-Koo Che.

Market Design Workshops

Columbia Market Design Conference

Core faculty members:

• Yeon-Koo Che
• Navin Kartik
• Jacob Leshno
• Qingmin Liu
• Xiaosheng Mu
• Evan Sadler

Advisory members:

• Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Duke)
• Nick Arnosti (Columbia Business)
• Eduardo Azevedo (Wharton Penn)
• Guillaume Haeringer (CUNY-Baruch)
• Yash Kanoria (Columbia Business)
• Yusuke Narita (Yale)
• Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford GSB)
• Parag Pathak (MIT)
• Jay Sethuraman (Columbia IEOR)
• Rakesh Vohra (Penn)
• Leeat Yariv (Princeton)