About

The Greater Bay Area Market Design Workshop gathers researchers working on market design, matching, mechanism design, and related empirical and experimental work. The 2025 edition takes place in Macau on October 16–17, 2025. The event features invited talks, focused discussions, and opportunities for collaboration across institutions in the GBA and beyond.

Programme

Day 1 · Thursday, October 16

09:30–09:50 Registration and coffee
09:50–10:00 Opening remarks
10:00–10:45

School Finance, Peers, and Choice

Yu Zhou (University of Nagoya)
10:45–11:30

Diversity in Choice as Majorization

Bumin Yenmez (Washington University in St. Louis)
11:30–12:15

Properties of Path-Independent Choice Correspondences and Their Applications to Efficient and Stable Matchings

Kenzo Imamura (University of Tokyo)
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45

Screening for Stability: Designing the Brazilian Unified National Public Competition

Inácio Bó (University of Macau)
14:45–15:30

Unified National Civil Service Jobs Selection – A reflection between market design theory and its real application

Pedro Assumpção (Ministry of Public Service Management and Innovation, Brazil)
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–16:45

Identifying and Quantifying (Un)Improvable Students

Josué Ortega (Queen’s University Belfast)
16:45–17:30

The Structure of Bayesian Stable Matchings

Gaoji Hu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
17:30–18:15

Priority-Based Incentives in Organ Donation

Mengling Li (Xiamen University)
18:45 Dinner — Grand Plaza

Day 2 · Friday, October 17

10:00–10:45

Fair Allocation with Beneficiary-Share Guarantee

Manshu Khanna (Peking University HSBC Business School)
10:45–11:30

Rank-Guaranteed Auctions

Jiangtao Li (Singapore Management University)
11:30–12:15

On Competitive Equilibria and Cores in Housing Markets with One Broker

Yongchao Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45

Marginal Mechanisms for Balanced Exchange

Vikram Manjunath (University of Ottawa)
14:45–15:30

An Axiomatization of the Random Priority Rule

Christian Basteck (WZB Berlin)
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–16:45

What makes the difference: Deriving characterizations of DA and IA from basic properties

Di Feng (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics)
16:45–17:30

Perceived Competition

Olivier Bochet (NYU Abu Dhabi)
18:30 Dinner — Location TBA

Speakers

Pedro Assumpção Ministry of Public Service Management and Innovation (Brazil)
Christian Basteck WZB Berlin
Olivier Bochet NYU Abu Dhabi
Inácio Bó University of Macau
Di Feng Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
Gaoji Hu Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Kenzo Imamura University of Tokyo
Manshu Khanna PKU HSBC Business School
Jiangtao Li Singapore Management University
Mengling Li Xiamen University
Vikram Manjunath University of Ottawa
Josué Ortega Queen’s University Belfast
Bumin Yenmez Washington University in St. Louis
Yongchao Zhang Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Yu Zhou University of Nagoya

Venue

Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau. Building E21b-G002.

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Organizers

Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau

Past Editions

Contact

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