New Challenges in Multihospital Kidney Exchange
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Ashlagi, Itai
Roth, Alvin E.
Date Issued
May 2012
Journal
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Citation
Ashlagi, Itai, and Alvin E. Roth. 2012. "New Challenges in Multihospital Kidney Exchange." American Economic Review, 102(3): 354-59.
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Abstract
The growth of kidney exchange presents new challenges for the design of kidney exchange clearinghouses. The players now include directors of transplant centers, who see sets of patient-donor pairs, and can choose to reveal only difficult-to-match pairs to the clearinghouse, while withholding easy-to-match pairs to transplant locally. This reduces the number of transplants. We discuss how the incentives for hospitals to enroll all pairs in kidney exchange can be achieved, and how the concentration of hard to match pairs increases the importance of long, non-simultaneous nondirected donor chains.
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Sloan School of Management
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https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.3.354
