Research

See this PDF for a coarse and imperfect attempt at an area-based classification of my working papers and publications.

For ease of navigation, my publications are grouped separately: chapters on different market design topics, articles in economics & related areas, and articles in medicine (on market design).

Navigate to Publications: Chapters | Articles – Economics & Related | Articles – Medicine on Market Design

Legend: ◦ : Current Working Paper, ▴ : Publication (* : lightly or not refereed), ▹ : Dormant Working Paper

Working Papers

◦ “Optimal Dynamic Matching under Local Compatibility: An Application to Kidney Exchange.” (with Ömer Faruk Şahin, Duygu Sili, Özgür Yılmaz) [Jul 2025]

◦ “Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care.” Revise-and-resubmit, Operations Research (with Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, Vincent W. Slaugh). [Jul 2025]

◦ “Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools.” Revise-and-resubmit, American Economic Review (with Julien Combe, Umut Dur, Olivier Tercieux, Camille Terrier). [Jan 2025][Slides]

◦ “Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: Theory and Application.” Revise-and-resubmit, American Economic Review (with Xiang Han, Onur Kesten). [May'24][Slides][Video:long|short]

  • Related:
    ▴ Extended Abstract for “Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-unit Exchange with Compatibility-based Preferences.” EC ’21: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, July 2021, 585-586 (with Xiang Han, Onur Kesten). [Proceeding]

◦ “Informed Neutrality in Minimalist Market Design: A Case Study on a Constitutional Crisis in India.” (with Tayfun Sönmez) [Jun 2024|Nov 2022]

◦ “Rematching with Contracts under Labor Mobility Restrictions: Theory and Application.” (with Umut Dur, Robert G. Hammond) [Apr 2024]

◦ “Child Welfare Platform Design to Improve Outcomes for Children with Disabilities.” (with Ludwig Dierks, Vincent W. Slaugh) [Mar 2024]

▹ “The Trade-off Between Vaccine Prioritization and Speed Depends on Mitigation Measures.” (with Nikhil Agarwal, Andrew Komo, Chetan Patel, Parag A. Pathak) [NBER: Feb 2021]

▹ “Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design.” (with Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez) [Oct 2020|May 2020]

  • Policy Impact
  • “White Paper: Expanding Access to Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma using Incentives.” (with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez) [Jul 2020]

▹ “Valuing Prearranged Paired Kidney Exchanges: A Stochastic Game Approach.” Final status: Revise-and-resubmit, Operations Research (with Murat Kurt, Mark S. Roberts, Andrew J. Schaefer). [Oct 2011]

▹ “Transplant Center Incentives in Kidney Exchange.” (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez) [Mar 2005]

Chapters on Market Design and Matching Theory

▴ * “Influencing Policy and Transforming Institutions: Lessons from Kidney/Liver Exchange.” In I. Lo, M. Ostrovsky, P. A. Pathak (Eds.): New Directions on Market Design, University of Chicago Press, January 2026, Chapter 8 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [NBER]

▴ * “Matching under Non-Transferable Utility: Theory.” In Y.-K. Che, P.-A. Chiappori, B. Salanie, (Eds.): Handbook of Economics of Matching, Volume 2, Elsevier, November 2025, Chapter 1 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [WP]

▴ * “Matching under Non-Transferable Utility: Applications.” In Y.-K. Che, P.-A. Chiappori, B. Salanie, (Eds.): Handbook of Economics of Matching, Volume 2, Elsevier, November 2025, Chapter 3 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [WP]

▴ * “Child Welfare Services in the United States: An Operations Research Perspective.” In G. Berenguer, M. Sohoni (Eds.): Nonprofit Operations and Supply Chain Management: Theory and Practice, Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, Volume 25, Springer, 2025, 321-347 (with Vincent W. Slaugh, Ludwig Dierks, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew C. Trapp). [PDF]

▴ * “Liver Paired Exchange.” In R. W. G. Gruessner, E. Benedetti (Eds.): Living Donor Organ Transplantation 2nd Edition, Volume 2, Academic Press, Elsevier, 2024, Chapter 34, 1278-1283 (with Sezai Yilmaz, Tayfun Sönmez, Veysel Umman, Volkan Ince, Sami Akbulut, Murat Zeytunlu, Burak Isik, Sukru Emre). [Book]

▴ * “Market Design for Kidney Exchange.” In Z. Neeman, A.E. Roth, N. Vulkan (Eds.): The Handbook of Market Design, Oxford University Press, October 2013, 93-137 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [PDF]

▴ * “Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources.” In J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, M. Jackson (Eds.): Handbook of Social Economics, Volume 1A, North-Holland, 2011, 781-852 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [WP]

▴ * “New Sources in Living Kidney Donation.” In D. B. McKay, S. M. Steinberg (Eds.): Kidney Transplantation: A Guide to the Care of Kidney Transplant Recipients, Springer, 2010, 103-107 (with Ruthanne Hanto, Alvin E. Roth, and Francis Delmonico).

Published in Economics & Related Area Venues

▴ “Ordinal Simplicity in Discrete Mechanism Design.” International Economic Review, October 2025, 66 (4), 1665–1680 (with Marek Pycia). [Open Access]

▴ “Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators, and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing.” Management Science, June 2024, 70 (6), 3999-4036 (with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Bumin Yenmez). [Open Access][Video][Older:Apr'20]

  • Related:
    ▴ Extended Abstract for “Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators, and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing.” EC’21: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, July 2021, 785-786 (with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Bumin Yenmez). [Proceeding]
  • Policy Impact: www.covid19reservesystem.org.
  • Policy-oriented working papers: www.covid19reservesystem.org/research.

▴ “Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic: Some Perspectives from the Field.” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Winter 2022, 38 (4), 924–940 (with Parag A. Pathak, Govind Persad, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|NBER]

▴ “Designing Practical and Fair Sequential Team Contests: The Case of Penalty Shootouts.” Games and Economic Behavior, November 2021, 130, 25-43 (with Nejat Anbarci, Ching-Jen Sun). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Incentivized Kidney Exchange.” American Economic Review, July 2020, 110 (7), 2198-2224 (with Tayfun Sönmez, M. Bumin Yenmez). [ePrint & Online App & Simulation][Slides][Draft:(with only Tayfun Sönmez) Jan'15]

▴ “Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange.” Econometrica, May 2020, 88 (3), 965-1005 (with Haluk Ergin, Tayfun Sönmez). [ePrint & Online App][Slides]

▴ “Two-Sided Matching via Balanced Exchange.” Journal of Political Economy, June 2019, 127 (3), 1156-1177 (with Umut Dur). [ePrint & Online App|WP] [Slides]

  • Related:
    ▹ “Maintaining Diversity in Student Exchange.” (with Umut Dur and Onur Kesten) [Apr 2015][Slides]

▴ “How (Not) to Integrate Blood Subtyping Technology to Kidney Exchange.” Journal of Economic Theory, July 2018, 176, 193-231 (with Tayfun Sönmez, Özgür Yilmaz). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Market Design for Living-Donor Organ Exchanges: An Economic Policy Perspective.” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, November 2017, 33 (4), 676-704 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Dual-Donor Organ Exchange.” Econometrica, September 2017, 85 (5), 1645-1671 (with  Haluk Ergin, Tayfun Sönmez). [ePrint & Online App & Simulation][Slides][Video]

▴ “Incentive Compatible Allocation and Exchange of Discrete Resources.” Theoretical Economics, January 2017, 12 (1), 287-329 (with Marek Pycia). [Open Access][Older:May'15|Feb'14|Nov'11]

  • Related:
    ▴ “Neutral Allocation of Discrete Resources with Outside Options.” Review of Economic Design, Special Issue in Honor of Semih Koray, December 2022, 26 (4), 581-604 (with Marek Pycia). [Open Access]
    ▹ “Trading Cycles for School Choice” (with Marek Pycia) [July'11]

▴ “The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process.” Interfaces (renamed as INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics), March-April 2016, 46 (2), 133-153 (with Vincent W. Slaugh, Mustafa Akan, Onur Kesten). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Decomposing Random Mechanisms.” Journal of Mathematical Economics, December 2015, 61, 21-33 (with Marek Pycia). [Journal|WP]

▴ “A Theory of School-Choice Lotteries.” Theoretical Economics, May 2015, 10 (2), 543-595 (with Onur Kesten). [Open Access][Slides]

▴ “Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation: Operations Research Changes the Way Kidneys are Transplanted.” Interfaces (renamed as INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics), January-February 2015, 45 (1), 24-42 (with Ross Anderson, Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael Rees, Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal]

▴ “Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange.” Journal of Economic Theory, July 2014, 152, 105-129 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|WP]

▴ “The `Boston’ School-Choice Mechanism: An Axiomatic Approach.” Economic Theory, April 2014, 55 (3), 515-544 (with Fuhito Kojima). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Two Axiomatic Approaches to the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism.” Theoretical Economics, January 2014, 9 (1), 253-277 (with Tadashi Hashimoto, Daisuke Hirata, Onur Kesten, Morimitsu Kurino). [Open Access]

  • Related:
    ▴ “On Characterizations of the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism Involving Incentive and Invariance Properties.” Mathematical Social Sciences, Special Issue in Honor of Herve Moulin, November 2017, 90, 56-62 (with Onur Kesten and Morimitsu Kurino). [Journal]
  • These papers are partially based on:
    ▹ “Fair and Efficient Assignment via The Probabilistic Serial Mechanism” (with Onur Kesten, Morimitsu Kurino) [May 2011]

▴ “House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A Characterization.” Games and Economic Behavior, July 2010, 69 (2), 425-445 (with Tayfun Sönmez).  [Journal|WP]

▴ “Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models.” Journal of Theoretical Politics, October 2010, 22 (4), 431-444 (with Herve Cres). [Journal|WP]

  • Related:
    ▴ “Toward a 50%-Majority Equilibrium When Voters are Symmetrically Distributed.” Mathematical Social Sciences, Special Issue in Honor of Herve Moulin, November 2017, 90, 145-149 (with Herve Cres). [Journal]

▴ “Course Bidding at Business Schools.” International Economic Review, February 2010, 51 (1), 99-123 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|WP][Draft:June'03]

▴ “Dynamic Kidney Exchange.” Review of Economic Studies, January 2010, 77 (1), 372-414. [ePrint|WP]

▴ “Internet Auctions with Artificial Adaptive Agents: A Study on Market Design.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 2008, 67 (2), 394-417 (with John Duffy). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Improving the Efficiency of Course Bidding at Business Schools: Field and Laboratory Studies.” Marketing Science, March-April 2008, 27 (2), 262-282 (with Aradhna Krishna). [Journal & Online App|WP]

▴ “Random Paths to Pairwise Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems: A Study on Market Equilibration.” International Journal of Game Theory, Special Issue in Honor of David Gale’s 85th Birthday, March 2008, 36 (3-4), 473-488 (with Fuhito Kojima). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matching: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls.” RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 2007, 38 (4), 967-982 (with Guillaume Frechette, Alvin E. Roth). [Journal & Online App|WP]

  • Related:
    ▴ “Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation.” Games, Special Issue in Matching, 2013, 4 (2), 243-282 (with Alvin E. Roth, Muriel Niederle). [Open Access]

▴ “Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences.” American Economic Review, June 2007, 97 (3), 828-851 (with Tayfun Sönmez and Alvin E. Roth). [ePrint & Online App & Simulation|WP]

▴ “Equilibrium Selection and the Role of Information in Repeated Matching Markets.” Economics Letters, February 2007, 94 (2), 284-289 (with Ernan Haruvy). [Journal|PDF]

▴ “Games of Capacity Manipulation in Hospital-Intern Markets.” Social Choice and Welfare, August 2006, 27 (1), 3-24 (with Hideo Konishi). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Credible Group Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems.” Journal of Economic Theory, July 2006, 129 (1), 57-80 (with Hideo Konishi). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Asset Price Bubbles and Crashes with Near-Zero-Intelligence Traders.” Economic Theory, April 2006, 27 (3), 537-563 (with John Duffy). [Journal|WP]

▴ “The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Proposals for Reform of the Market.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, March 2006, 30 (3), 457-486 (with Ernan Haruvy, Alvin E. Roth). [Journal & Exp Instructions|WP]

▴ “Pairwise Kidney Exchange.” Journal of Economic Theory, December 2005, 125 (2), 151-188 (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|WP][Older:NBER'04]

▴ “House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence.” Games and Economic Behavior, July 2005, 52 (1), 153-185 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|WP]

▴ * “A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (renamed as AEA: Papers and Proceedings), May 2005, 95 (2), 376-380 (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez). [ePrint] (Session refereed)

▴ “Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach.” Social Choice and Welfare, June 2004, 22 (3), 515-538 (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|WP]

▴ “Kidney Exchange.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2004, 119 (2), 457-488 (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez). [ePrint]

  • Related:
    ▹”Market Mechanisms for Fair Allocation of Indivisible Objects and Money.” Final status: Revise-and-resubmit, Social Choice and Welfare. [Mar'07]

▴ “On Determination of Optimal Reserve Prices in Auctions with Common Knowledge about the Ranking of Valuations.” In Murat R. Sertel and Semih Koray (Eds.): Advances in Economic Design, Springer, 2003, 79-94 (with A. Alexander Elbittar). [PDF]

▴ “Backward Unraveling over Time: The Evolution of Strategic Behavior in the Entry-Level British Medical Labor Markets.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, June 2001, 25 (6-7), 1039-1080. [Journal|WP]

Published in Medical Venues (on Market Design)

on Liver Exchange

▴ “Enhanced Role of Multi-Pair Donor Swaps in Response to Size Incompatibility: The First Two 5-Way and the First 6-Way Liver Paired Exchanges.” American Journal of Transplantation, October 2024, 24 (10), 1881-1895 (with Sezai Yilmaz, Tayfun Sönmez, Volkan Ince, Sami Akbulut, Kemal Baris Sarici, Burak Isik). [Open Access]

▴ “The First 4-Way Liver Paired Exchange from an Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Healthcare Professionals and Design Economists.” American Journal of Transplantation, October 2023, 23 (10), 1612-1621 (with Sezai Yilmaz, Tayfun Sönmez, Volkan Ince, Sami Akbulut, Burak Isik, Sukru Emre). [Open Access]

▴ * “Leverbytesprogram – framtid för Sverige?” (“Liver Exchange – A future for Sweden?”) Läkartidningen (The Journal of the Swedish Medical Association), August 9, 2018, 115, E9YL (with Tommy Andersson, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal]

on Pandemic Resource Allocation

▴ “Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Supply of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody.” JAMA Health Forum, 2023, 4 (9), e232774 (with Erin K. McCreary, Utibe R. Essien, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Rachel A. Butler, Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, Ashley Steiner, Maddie Chrisman, Derek C. Angus, Douglas B. White). [Journal]

▴ “A Multi-center Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Therapeutics.” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, August 15, 2022, 206 (4), 503-506 (with Douglas B. White, Erin K. McCreary, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Mark Schmidhofer, Ryan Bariola, Naudia N. Jonaissant, Govind Persad, Robert D. Truog, Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal]

▴ * “Fair Access to Scarce Medical Capacity for Non-COVID-19 Patients: A Role for Reserves.” The British Medical Journal, February 1, 2022, 376, o276 (with Govind Persad, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal]

▴ “A Novel Approach to Equitable Distribution of Scarce Therapeutics: Institutional Experience Implementing a Reserve System for Allocation of Covid-19 Monoclonal Antibodies.” Chest, December 2021, 160 (6), 2324-2331 (with Emily Rubin, Scott L. Dryden-Peterson, Sarah P. Hammond, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|ePrint]

▴ “Reserve Systems for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Path From April 2020 to April 2021.” Chest, October 2021, 160 (4), 1572-1575 (with Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|ePrint]

▴ “Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities.” Chest, March 2021, 159 (3), 1294-1299 (with Tayfun Sönmez, Parag A. Pathak, Govind Persad, Robert D. Truog, Douglas White). [Journal|ePrint]

▴ “Covid-19: How To Prioritize Worse-off Populations in Allocating Safe and Effective Vaccines.” The British Medical Journal, October 2020, 371, m3795 (with Harald Schmidt, Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal]

▴ * “Improving Ventilator Rationing Through Collaboration With Experts on Resource Allocation.” JAMA Network Open, June 2020, 3 (6), e2012838 (with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal|ePrint]

on Kidney Exchange

▴ * “Nierentausch in Deutschland: Analysen und Empfehlungen.” (“Kidney Exchange in Germany: Analyses and Recommendations.”) Medizinrecht, 2024, 42 (8), 567-572 (with Axel Ockenfels, Tayfun Sönmez). [Journal]

  • Also, a version appeared in English as
    ▴ * “Crossover kidney donation in Germany (EconTRIBUTE Policy Brief:60).” Wirtschaftsdienst: Economic Policy Journal, 2024, 104 (8), 513. [Journal]

▴ “A Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chain.”The New England Journal of Medicine, March 12, 2009, 360 (11), 1096-1101 (with Michael Rees et al.). [ePrint]

▴ * “Kidney Paired Donation with Compatible Pairs.” American Journal of Transplantation, February 2007, 7 (2), 1 (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez).

▴ “Utilizing List Exchange and Non-directed Donation through ‘Chain’ Paired Kidney Donations.” American Journal of Transplantation, November 2006, 6 (11), 2694-2705 (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, Francis L. Delmonico, Susan L. Saidman). [ePrint]

▴ “Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation By Matching for Two and Three-Way Exchanges.” Transplantation, March 15, 2006, 81 (5), 773-782 (with Susan L. Saidman, Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, Francis L. Delmonico). [Journal]

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