Associate Professor, Economics

Biography    Research    Selected Publications    Editorial Positions    Teaching    Conference and Workshop Organization    Council Member    PhD Student Supervision   

Education

PhD: Caltech

Research interests

Matching Theory, Axiomatic Resource Allocation, Coalition Formation 

Fields of specialization

Game Theory, Social Choice, Market Design

Professional experience

    •    Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Finance, University of Notre Dame
    •    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
    •    Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Koc University

Working Papers

"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" with Nickesha Ayoade (forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior)
"Preference Aggregation for Couples" with Rouzbeh Ghouchani
"Balanced Exchange in a Multi-Unit Shapley-Scarf Market" with Péter Biró and Flip Klijn
"Serial Rules in a Multi-Unit Shapley-Scarf Market" with Péter Biró and Flip Klijn

Current Research Projects

"Targeted Priority Reserve Policies" with Dilek Sayedahmed
"Matching with Consecutive Acceptance Intervals" with Asefeh Salarinezhad 
"Matching with Minimal Priority Rights"
"Fairness Comparisons of Strategyproof and Efficient Matching Rules" with Pooya Ghasvareh

Short Contribution

"On the Future of Economic Design — The Personal Ruminations of a Matching Theorist"
appears in The Future of Economic Design, Springer 2019

Recent Research Talks

"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" Ottawa Theory Workshop, October 2019, Ottawa
"Targeted Priority Reserve Policies" University of Hawaii, November 2019
"Fairness Comparisons of Strategyproof and Efficient Matching Rules" North Carolina State University, February 2020
"Targeted Priority Reserve Policies" Florida State University, March 2020
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (CMID20), online, June 2020
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" Online Social Choice and Welfare Seminar Series, January 2021
"Fairness Comparisons of Strategyproof and Efficient Matching Rules" International Conference on Social Choice and Voting Theory, online, June 2021

Strategyproof Assignment by Hierarchical Exchange

 Econometrica (2000) 68: 1403-1433

Unique Stability in Simple Coalition Formation Games

Games and Economic Behavior (2004) 48: 337-354

Exchange in a general market with indivisible goods

Journal of Economic Theory (2007) 132: 208-237

Associate Editor (since 2008): Social Choice and Welfare

Guest editor for Games, special issue on "Matching with Distributional Constraints or Objectives" Submission deadline: August 31, 2022

Econ 695

Economic Design

Econ 614

Game Theory

Econ 440/598

Market Design

Econ 464/564

Game Theory

Economic Design conference, Budapest, June 2019: program committee member

SAET conference, Ischia, Italy, July 2019: organizer of two sessions on Matching

CRM thematic workshop on Agents Behavior in Combinatorial Game Theory, November 2021 (online): co-organizer

Social Choice and Welfare conference, Mexico City, June 2022: program committee member

Society for Social Choice and Welfare, 2016-2021