Research

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). (Last updated: April 2026)

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Working Papers

“Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care.” Revise-and-resubmit, Operations Research. (with Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, Vincent W. Slaugh). [April 2026 draft]

“Flexible Multi-unit Exchange: Theory and An Application to Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors.” Revise-and-resubmit, American Economic Review (with Xiang Han, Onur Kesten) [March 2026 draft · slides · video long or short]

  • Extended Abstract:
    “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). [open access]

“When Family Incentives Meet Caseworker Scarcity: Improving Adoption Outcomes for Children with Disabilities.” (with Ludwig Dierks, Vincent W. Slaugh) [March 2026 draft]

“Rematching with Contracts under Labor Mobility Restrictions: Theory and Application.” Revise-and-resubmit, Management Science (with Umut Dur, Robert G. Hammond). [December 2025 draft]

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

“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). [January 2025 draft · slides]

“Informed Neutrality in Minimalist Market Design: A Case Study on a Constitutional Crisis in India.” Revise-and-resubmit, Games and Economic Behavior (with Tayfun Sönmez). [June 2024 draft · November 2022 draft]

Dormant Working Papers

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

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

“Maintaining Diversity in Student Exchange.” (with Umut Dur, Onur Kesten) [April 2015 draft · slides]

“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). [October 2011 draft]

“Trading Cycles for School Choice.” (with Marek Pycia) [July 2011 draft]

“Market Mechanisms for Fair Allocation of Indivisible Objects and Money.” Final status: Revise-and-resubmit, Social Choice and Welfare. [March 2007 draft]

“Transplant Center Incentives in Kidney Exchange.” (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez) [March 2005 draft]

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Chapters in Edited Volumes

* “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). [pub · draft]

* “Matching under Non-Transferable Utility: Theory.” In Y.-K. Che, P.-A. Chiappori, B. Salanie, (Eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume 2, Elsevier, November 2025, Chapter 1, 1-118 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · draft]

* “Matching under Non-Transferable Utility: Applications.” In Y.-K. Che, P.-A. Chiappori, B. Salanie, (Eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume 2, Elsevier, November 2025, Chapter 3, 177-306 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · draft]

* “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, Chapter 14, 321-347 (with Vincent W. Slaugh, Ludwig Dierks, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Andrew C. Trapp). [pub · draft]

* “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). [pub]

* “Market Design for Kidney Exchange.” In Z. Neeman, A.E. Roth, N. Vulkan (Eds.): The Handbook of Market Design, Oxford University Press, October 2013, Chapter 4, 93-137 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · draft]

* “Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources.” In J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, M. Jackson (Eds.): Handbook of Social Economics, Volume 1, North-Holland, 2011, Chapter 17, 781-852 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · draft]

* “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, Chapter 8, 103-107 (with Ruthanne Hanto, Alvin E. Roth, Francis L. Delmonico). [pub]

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Economics Articles

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

  • Based on:
    “Ordinal Simplicity and Auditability in Discrete Mechanism Design.” (with Marek Pycia) [October 2023 draft]

“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 · April 2020 draft]

“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). [pub · draft]

“Incentivized Kidney Exchange.” American Economic Review, July 2020, 110 (7), 2198-2224 (with Tayfun Sönmez, M. Bumin Yenmez). [pub · eprint · appendix · code · slides]

  • Based on:
    “Enhancing the Efficiency of and Equity in Transplant Organ Allocation via Incentivized Exchange.” (with Tayfun Sönmez) [January 2015 draft]

“Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange.” Econometrica, May 2020, 88 (3), 965-1005 (with Haluk Ergin, Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · eprint · appendix · slides]

“Two-Sided Matching via Balanced Exchange.” Journal of Political Economy, June 2019, 127 (3), 1156-1177 (with Umut Dur). [pub · eprint · appendix · slides]

“How (Not) to Integrate Blood Subtyping Technology to Kidney Exchange.” Journal of Economic Theory, July 2018, 176, 193-231 (with Tayfun Sönmez, Özgür Yılmaz). [pub · draft]

“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). [pub · draft]

“Dual-Donor Organ Exchange.” Econometrica, September 2017, 85 (5), 1645-1671 (with  Haluk Ergin, Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · eprint · appendix · code · slides]

“Incentive Compatible Allocation and Exchange of Discrete Resources.” Theoretical Economics, January 2017, 12 (1), 287-329 (with Marek Pycia). [open access · May 2015 draft · February 2014 draft · November 2011 draft]

  • 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]

“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). [open access]

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

“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). [open access]

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

“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, Morimitsu Kurino). [pub · draft]
     
  • Both (partially) based on:
    “Fair and Efficient Assignment via The Probabilistic Serial Mechanism.” (with Onur Kesten, Morimitsu Kurino) [May 2011 draft]

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

  • Based on:
    “Kidney Exchange with Good Samaritan Donors: A Characterization.” 2006 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [draft]
     
  • Companion Paper:
    “House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence.” Games and Economic Behavior, July 2005, 52 (1), 153-185 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · draft]

“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). [pub · draft]

  • Related Paper:
    “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). [pub · draft]
     
  • Both based on:
    “Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models.” June 2005 (with Herve Cres) [draft]

“Course Bidding at Business Schools.” International Economic Review, February 2010, 51 (1), 99-123 (with Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · draft · June 2003 draft]

  • Companion Paper:
    “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). [pub · appendix · draft]

“Dynamic Kidney Exchange.” Review of Economic Studies, January 2010, 77 (1), 372-414. [pub · eprint]

“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). [pub · draft]

“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). [pub · draft]

“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). [pub · appendix · draft]

  • Companion Paper:
    “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, Alvin E. Roth). [pub · eprint · appendix · code]

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

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

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

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

“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). [pub · instructions · draft]

“Pairwise Kidney Exchange.” Journal of Economic Theory, December 2005, 125 (2), 151-188 (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez). [pub · draft · August 2004 Draft]

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

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

“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). [pub · draft]

“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. [pub · draft]

  • Best Graduate Student Paper Prize awarded by the Society for Computational Economics (SCE) (1999).
     
  • Companion Paper:
    “On the Survival of Some Unstable Two-Sided Matching Mechanisms.” International Journal of Game Theory, June 2005, 33 (2), 239-254. [pub · data · appendix · draft]

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Interdisciplinary Articles (on Market Design)

on Liver-Paired 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). [open access]

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 A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, Ashley Steiner, Maddie Chrisman, Derek C. Angus, Douglas B. White). [open access]

“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 A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez). [open access]

* “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). [open access]

“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). [open access · 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, Tayfun Sönmez). [open access · 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 B. White. [open access · 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 A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez). [open access · eprint]

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

on Kidney-Paired 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). [open access]

  • English version (working paper):
    “Crossover Kidney Donation in Germany.” Wirtschaftsdienst: Economic Policy Journal, 2024, 104 (8), 513. [draft]

“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.). [open access · eprint]

* “Kidney Paired Donation with Compatible Pairs.” American Journal of Transplantation, February 2007, 7 (2), 1 (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez). [open access · eprint]

“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). [open access · 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). [pub · eprint]

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