Michael Ostrovsky
@mostrovsky.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at Stanford GSB
A podcast episode with @skominers.bsky.social and @rhhackett on #congestionpricing in New York City (and beyond). Link: web3-with-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/con...
Congestion Pricing: Economics, Theory, Reality | web3 with a16z crypto
Everyone hates traffic. One way to reduce it is through congestion pricing, which New York City implemented at the start of the year — a first of its kind for the U.S. We spoke to two economists about...
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The New York City congestion pricing lawsuit. Very much worth following. Real-time updates at www.courtlistener.com/docket/69652...
Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Duffy, 1:25-cv-01413 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Metropolitan Transportation Authority v. Duffy, 1:25-cv-01413 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Big Cases Bot@bigcases.bots.law · last yr.I'm now following MTA v. DOT (Congestion Pricing): View Full Case | Background Info | Complaint #CL69652290
NBER Market Design Working Group Report, talking about many exciting recent papers in all areas of market design/design of economic mechanisms. www.nber.org/reporter/202...
Working Group Report: Market Design
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One would normally want to wait longer to evaluate the effects of major policy changes, but the results of the first three days of #CongestionPricing in New York City are so striking that it is already possible to make some (at least preliminary) conclusions.
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Game Changer - the game theory podcast: How auctions conquered the internet | with Michael Ostrovsky
In this episode Michael Ostrovsky walks us through the history of online advertising auctions, from their modest beginnings at Yahoo and other internet pioneers to the lucrative business models many i...
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Julien Combe@combeju.bsky.social · 2y agoVery nice podcast indeed. I also gave my modest contribution discussing kidney exchange at the time of the French reform: open.spotify.com/episode/2vJg...
The final legal hurdle is over (link below), congestion pricing in New York City (first one in the US!) is starting on Sunday.
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Bumping this in case someone has new suggestions :) Would really appreciate any help/pointers
Michael Ostrovsky@mostrovsky.bsky.social · 2y agoEmpirical #econsky - what's the *easiest* way to *quickly* hire 40-50 people in the US at $20-25 per hour for a short period of time (~20 hours per week) to do some basic real-world data collection stuff (e.g., go to supermarket X and collect prices of Y and Z)? Is there some temp agency to contact?
Empirical #econsky - what's the *easiest* way to *quickly* hire 40-50 people in the US at $20-25 per hour for a short period of time (~20 hours per week) to do some basic real-world data collection stuff (e.g., go to supermarket X and collect prices of Y and Z)? Is there some temp agency to contact?
Unexpected achievement unlocked: Frank Yang and I wrote a paper that (admittedly pretty minimally) uses the notions of Manhattan distance and taxicab geometry to study .... taxicabs in Manhattan "Effective and Equitable Congestion Pricing: New York City and Beyond": web.stanford.edu/~ost/papers/...
