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Economics, Market Design, Mechanism Design, Matching, Game Theory, Kidney Exchange

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United States

Biography

I am an economic theorist with research interests in market design, mechanism design, and game theory with emphasis on the theory and practice of matching markets and allocation/exchange of discrete resources.
My recent research focuses on

* The design and analysis of new organ allocation policies, including but not limited to kidney exchange clearinghouses
* Axiomatic properties of matching and discrete resource allocation mechanisms, and probabilistic mechanisms
* Improving recommendation systems used in adoption of children in foster care
* Balanced exchange and matching in two-sided matching markets such as tuition exchange in college admissions, student exchange among colleges
* Dynamic matching mechanisms and models
* School choice mechanisms

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Employment (4)

Boston College: Chestnut Hill, MA, US

2011-07 to present | Professor (Economics)
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Boston College: Chestnut Hill, MA, US

2008-07 to 2011-06 | Associate Professor (Economics)
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University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA, US

2005-08 to 2008-08 | Assistant Professor (Economics)
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Koç Üniversitesi: Istanbul, TR

2000-08 to 2005-08 | Assistant Professor (Economics)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, PA, US

1995-08 to 2000-08 | PhD (Economics)
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Bilkent University: Ankara, TR

1993-09 to 1995-08 | MA (Economics)
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Bilkent University: Ankara, TR

1989-09 to 1993-06 | BSc (Electrical and Electronics Engineering)
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Funding (5)

Liver Exchange

2017-09-01 to 2019-08-31 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000088/1729778/Liver-Exchange
GRANT_NUMBER: grant.1729778
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Organ Exchange for Kidneys, Livers, and Lungs

2014-09-01 to 2017-08-31 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000088/1426440/Organ-Exchange-for-Kidneys-Livers-and-Lungs
GRANT_NUMBER: grant.1426440
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Collaborative Research: The Optimal Timing of Kidney Exchanges: A Markov Game Approach

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Collaborative Research: Kidney Exchange

2006-08-01 to 2008-07-31 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000088/0616689/Collaborative-Research-Kidney-Exchange
GRANT_NUMBER: grant.0616689
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EHP: Market Culture, Performance, and the Timing of Transactions

2004-07-15 to 2010-06-30 | Grant
Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (n/a, US)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/100000088/0338619/EHP-Market-Culture-Performance-and-the-Timing-of-Transactions
GRANT_NUMBER: grant.0338619
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Enhanced role of multipair donor swaps in response to size incompatibility: The first two 5-way and the first 6-way liver paired exchanges

American Journal of Transplantation
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.05.013
Contributors: Sezai Yilmaz; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver; Volkan Ince; Sami Akbulut; Kemal Baris Sarici; Burak Isik
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Editorial from the New Co-Editors-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation

ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
2023-12-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1145/3631669
Contributors: Paul Goldberg; Utku Ünver
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The first 4-way liver paired exchange from an interdisciplinary collaboration between health care professionals and design economists

American Journal of Transplantation
2023-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.06.016
Contributors: Sezai Yilmaz; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver; Volkan Ince; Sami Akbulut; Burak Isik; Sukru Emre
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A Multicenter Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202201-0133LE
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2-s2.0-85136908602

Part of ISSN: 15354970 1073449X
Contributors: White, D.B.; McCreary, E.K.; Chang, C.-C.H.; Schmidhofer, M.; Ryan Bariola, J.; Jonassaint, N.N.; Persad, G.; Truog, R.D.; Pathak, P.; Sonmez, T. et al.
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Fair access to scarce medical capacity for non-covid-19 patients: A role for reserves

The BMJ
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.o276
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2-s2.0-85123973232

Part of ISSN: 17561833 09598146
Contributors: Persad, G.; Pathak, P.A.; Sönmez, T.; Ünver, M.U.
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MARKET DESIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: A CASE STUDY ON A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IN INDIA

arXiv
2022 | Other
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.10166
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2-s2.0-85144584537

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Sönmez, T.; Ünver, M.U.
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Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic: Some Perspectives from the Field

Oxford Review of Economic Policy
2022 | Journal article
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac034

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2-s2.0-85131609348

Part of ISSN: 15565068
Contributors: Parag A. Pathak; Govind Persad; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku ÜNVER
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Outside options in neutral allocation of discrete resources

Review of Economic Design
2022-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10058-022-00321-7
Contributors: Marek Pycia; M. Utku Ünver
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Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: Theory and Application

2022-10 | Journal article
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3858158
Contributors: Han, Xiang; Kesten, Onur; M. Utku ÜNVER
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Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re) assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools

2022-02 | Journal article
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https://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocoec/1050.html
Contributors: Combe, Julien; Dur, Umut Mert; Tercieux, Olivier; Terrier, Camille; M. Utku ÜNVER
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A Novel Approach to Equitable Distribution of Scarce Therapeutics: Institutional Experience Implementing a Reserve System for Allocation of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies

Chest
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.08.003
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2-s2.0-85120162071

Part of ISSN: 19313543 00123692
Contributors: Rubin, E.; Dryden-Peterson, S.L.; Hammond, S.P.; Lennes, I.; Letourneau, A.R.; Pathak, P.; Sonmez, T.; Ünver, M.U.
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Designing practical and fair sequential team contests: The case of penalty shootouts

Games and Economic Behavior
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2021.07.004
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2-s2.0-85112737566

Part of ISSN: 10902473 08998256
Contributors: Anbarcı, N.; Sun, C.-J.; Ünver, M.U.
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Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care

arXiv
2021 | Other
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2103.10145
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2-s2.0-85141628135

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Olberg, N.; Dierks, L.; Seuken, S.; Slaugh, V.W.; Ünver, M.U.
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Arrovian efficiency and auditability in discrete mechanism design

2021-11 | Journal article
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https://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocoec/1044.html
Contributors: Pycia, Marek; M. Utku ÜNVER
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Reserve Systems for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Path From April 2020 to April 2021.

Chest
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.06.001
PMID: 34625176
PMC: PMC8490915
Contributors: Pathak PA; Sönmez T; Ünver MU
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Extended Abstract-Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
2021-07 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3465456.3467565
Contributors: Xiang Han; Onur Kesten; M. Utku ÜNVER
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Extended Abstract-Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
2021-07 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3465456.3467604
Contributors: Parag A. Pathak; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku ÜNVER; M. Bumin Yenmez
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The Trade-off Between Prioritization and Vaccination Speed Depends on Mitigation Measures

2021-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.24.21252352
PPR: PPR289358
Contributors: Agarwal N; Komo A; Patel C; Pathak P; Ünver MU
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Arrovian Efficiency and Auditability in the Allocation of Discrete Resources

SSRN
2020 | Other
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2-s2.0-85110349050

Part of ISSN: 15565068
Contributors: Pycia, M.; Ünver, M.U.
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Do Black and Indigenous Communities Receive Their Fair Share of Vaccines under the 2018 Cdc Guidelines?

SSRN
2020 | Other
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2-s2.0-85112113950

Part of ISSN: 15565068
Contributors: Pathak, P.A.; Schmidt, H.; Solomon, A.; Song, E.; Sönmez, T.; Ünver, M.U.
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Efficient and Incentive‐Compatible Liver Exchange

Econometrica
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3982/ecta16400
Part of ISSN: 0012-9682
Contributors: Haluk Ergin; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver
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Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value behind in Health Care Rationing

arXiv
2020 | Other
EID:

2-s2.0-85095533758

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Pathak, P.A.; Ünver, M.U.; Sönmez, T.; Yenmez, M.B.
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Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities.

Chest
2020-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.12.019
PMID: 33373597
PMC: PMC9748801
Contributors: Sönmez T; Pathak PA; Ünver MU; Persad G; Truog RD; White DB
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Rationing Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccines: Allocating to States Proportionate to Population May Undermine Commitments to Mitigating Health Disparities

2020-11 | Preprint
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3729069
PPR: PPR238711
Contributors: Schmidt H; Pathak PA; Williams MA; Sonmez T; Ünver MU; Gostin LO
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What Prioritizing Worse-Off Minority Groups for COVID-19 Vaccines Means Quantitatively: Practical, Legal and Ethical Implications

2020-11 | Preprint
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3716686
PPR: PPR241647
Contributors: Schmidt H; Ünver MU; Williams MA; Pathak PA; Sonmez T; Gostin LO
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Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design

2020-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3594465
DOI: 10.3386/w27143
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https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.bc.edu/dist/3/30/files/2020/10/draft_v26.pdf

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2-s2.0-85109915627

Part of ISSN: 15565068
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2-s2.0-85109992774
Contributors: Scott Duke Kominers; Parag A. Pathak; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku ÜNVER
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Covid-19: how to prioritize worse-off populations in allocating safe and effective vaccines

BMJ
2020-10-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m3795
Part of ISSN: 1756-1833
Contributors: Harald Schmidt; Parag Pathak; Tayfun Sönmez; M Utku Ünver
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Incentivized Kidney Exchange

American Economic Review
2020-07-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20170950
Part of ISSN: 0002-8282
Contributors: Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver; M. Bumin Yenmez
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Improving Ventilator Rationing Through Collaboration With Experts on Resource Allocation

JAMA Network Open
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12838
Part of ISSN: 2574-3805
Contributors: Parag A. Pathak; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver
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Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing

2020-04 | Report
DOI: 10.3386/w26951
Contributors: Parag Pathak; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Unver; M. Bumin Yenmez
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Two-Sided Matching via Balanced Exchange

Journal of Political Economy
2019-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/701358
Part of ISSN: 0022-3808
Contributors: Umut Mert Dur; M. Utku Ünver
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Leverbytesprogram – framtid för sverige?

Lakartidningen
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85051842119

Part of ISSN: 16527518 00237205
Contributors: Andersson, T.; Sönmez, T.; Utku Ünver, M.
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How (not) to integrate blood subtyping technology to kidney exchange

Journal of Economic Theory
2018-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2018.03.011
Contributors: Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver; Özgür Yılmaz
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Dual-Donor Organ Exchange

Econometrica
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA13971
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2-s2.0-85030327705
Contributors: Ergin, H.; Sönmez, T.; Ünver, M.U.
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Incentive compatible allocation and exchange of discrete resources

Theoretical Economics
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3982/TE2201
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2-s2.0-85010915141
Contributors: Pycia, M.; Ünver, M.U.
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Market design for living-donor organ exchanges: An economic policy perspective

Oxford Review of Economic Policy
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grx048
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2-s2.0-85034439487
Contributors: Sönmez, T.; Ünver, M.U.
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On characterizations of the probabilistic serial mechanism involving incentive and invariance properties

Mathematical Social Sciences
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2016.11.005
Contributors: Kesten, Onur; Kurino, Morimitsu; M. Utku ÜNVER
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Toward a 50%-majority equilibrium when voters are symmetrically distributed

Mathematical Social Sciences
2017-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2016.08.006
Part of ISSN: 0165-4896
Contributors: Hervé Crès; M. Utku Ünver
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The Pennsylvania adoption exchange improves its matching process

Interfaces
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2015.0828
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2-s2.0-84961997844
Contributors: Slaugh, V.W.; Akan, M.; Kesten, O.; Ünver, M.U.
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A theory of school-choice lotteries

Theoretical Economics
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3982/TE1558
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2-s2.0-84930163207
Contributors: Kesten, O.; Ünver, M.U.
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Decomposing random mechanisms

Journal of Mathematical Economics
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2015.06.002
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2-s2.0-84948756095
Contributors: Pycia, M.; Ünver, M.U.
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Maintaining Diversity in Student Exchange

2015-04 | Journal article
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4064921#
Contributors: Dur, Umut; Kesten, Onur; M. Utku ÜNVER
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Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation: Operations Research Changes the Way Kidneys Are Transplanted

Interfaces
2015-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2014.0766
Part of ISSN: 0092-2102
Contributors: Ross Anderson; Itai Ashlagi; David Gamarnik; Michael Rees; Alvin E. Roth; Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver
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Altruistically unbalanced kidney exchange

Journal of Economic Theory
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2014.04.003
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2-s2.0-84902112593
Contributors: Sönmez, T.; Ünver, M.U.
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Two axiomatic approaches to the probabilistic serial mechanism

Theoretical Economics
2014-01 | Journal article
DOI:

10.3982/te1010

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1933-6837
Contributors: Tadashi Hashimoto; Daisuke Hirata; Onur Kesten; Morimitsu Kurino; M. Utku Ünver
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Unraveling results from comparable demand and supply: An experimental investigation

Games
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/g4020243
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2-s2.0-84893139437
Contributors: Niederle, M.; Roth, A.E.; Ünver, M.U.
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Market Design for Kidney Exchange

The Handbook of Market Design
2013-09 | Other
DOI:

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570515.003.0005

ISBN:

9780199570515
Contributors: Tayfun SÖnmez; Utku M. Ünver
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The “Boston” school-choice mechanism: an axiomatic approach

Econ Theory
2013-08-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s00199-013-0769-8

Part of ISSN:

0938-2259
Contributors: Fuhito Kojima; M. Utku Ünver
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Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources

Handbook of Social Economics
2011 | Other
DOI:

10.1016/b978-0-444-53187-2.00017-6

ISBN:

9780444537133

ISSN:

1570-6435
Contributors: Tayfun Sönmez; M. Utku Ünver
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Trading Cycles for School Choice

SSRN Electronic Journal
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1899344
Part of ISSN: 1556-5068
Contributors: Marek Pycia; M. Utku Ünver
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