American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
New Challenges in Multihospital Kidney Exchange
American Economic Review
vol. 102,
no. 3, May 2012
(pp. 354–59)
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.Citation
Ashlagi, Itai, and Alvin E. Roth. 2012. "New Challenges in Multihospital Kidney Exchange." American Economic Review, 102 (3): 354–59. DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.354JEL Classification
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information
- I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets