Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence

Start: 08/22/2016 14:00

End: 08/22/2016 16:00

Location: Budapest XI., Budaörsi út 45. VIII/807. (conference room)

Description

Lecture:

22 Aug 2016 - 2 pm
Alex Teytelboym
/Otto Poon Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the University of Oxford/

Title: Refugee Resettlement
(with David Delacretaz and Scott Duke Kominers)

Abstract: Roughly 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in these countries are typically ad hoc, accounting for neither the needs and capacities of hosting communities, nor the preferences of refugees themselves. In this paper, we propose three refugee resettlement systems based on two-sided matching theory that can be used by hosting countries in different circumstances. The mechanisms we propose can improve match efficiency and reduce internal movement of refugees across localities—and might thereby encourage localities to accept more refugees in total. Additionally, the combinatorially-constrained matching framework we develop for our model is of independent theoretical interest and has applications beyond the refugee resettlement context.