Patients needing kidney transplants may have willing donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue … patients. Larger than 3-way exchanges have much smaller impact. Larger populations of patient-donor pairs increase the … percentage of patients of all kinds who can find exchanges …

over kidneys should be 0-1, i.e. that patients and surgeons should be indifferent among kidneys from healthy donors whose … kinds of priority setting that organ banks currently use for the allocation of cadaver organs, as well as stochastic …

. In a dynamic matching model, we prove that Unpaired delivers a waiting time of patients close to optimal and …

We provide an analytical model of exchange when there are many highly sensitized patients, and show that large cycles … benefit highly sensitized patients without harming low-sensitized patients …

: consumer surplus from a hospital demand system and the fraction of population hospital admissions that would be covered by the …

substantial "offset" effects in terms of increased hospital utilization in response to the combination of higher copayments for … physicians and prescription drugs. These offset effects are concentrated in patients for whom medical care is presumably … underlying health status, with chronically ill patients facing lower cost-sharing. We also conclude that the externalities to …

. Like many other scarce public resources, organs from deceased donors are rationed to patients on a waitlist via a … allocation of deceased donor kidneys. We model the decision to accept an organ or wait for a more preferable organ as an optimal … types of kidneys are desirable for all patients, there is substantial match-specific heterogeneity in values. We then …

their patients' benefits from exchange, and current mechanisms sub-optimally reward hospitals for submitting patients and …

context of Norway's system for allocating patients to general practitioners (GPs). We provide direct evidence of misallocation … under the current system--patients sitting on waitlists for each others' GPs, but who cannot trade--and analyze an …--with especially large benefits for female patients and recent movers--patients endowed with undesirable GPs would be harmed …