Faculty
Szilvia Pápai, PhD
Associate Professor, Economics
Biography Research Selected Publications Editorial Positions Teaching Conference and Workshop Organization PhD Student Supervision Council Member

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
Research
Forthcoming and Working Papers
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" with Nickesha Ayoade (forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior)
"Preference Aggregation for Couples" with Rouzbeh Ghouchani (forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare)
"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
"Targeted Priority Reserve Policies" Condorcet Lecture, Social Choice and Welfare conference, Mexico City, June 2022
"Fairness Comparisons of Strategyproof and Efficient Matching Rules" International Conference on Social Choice and Voting Theory, online, June 2021
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" Online Social Choice and Welfare Seminar Series, January 2021
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (CMID20), online, June 2020
"Targeted Priority Reserve Policies" Florida State University, March 2020
"Fairness Comparisons of Strategyproof and Efficient Matching Rules" North Carolina State University, February 2020
"Targeted Priority Reserve Policies" University of Hawaii, November 2019
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" Ottawa Theory Workshop, October 2019
Selected Publications
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
Editorial Positions
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
Teaching
Econ 695
Economic Design
Econ 614
Game Theory
Econ 440/540
Market Design
Econ 464/564
Game Theory
Conference and Workshop Organization
Economic Design conference, Budapest, June 2019: program committee member
SAET conference, Ischia, Italy, July 2019: organizer of two sessions
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
SAET conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2022: organizer of two sessions
PhD Student Supervision
Nickesha Ayoade - completed in 2020
Dilek Sayedahmed - completed in 2021
Asefeh Salarinezhad - completed in 2021
Yuxing Liang (co-supervised with Xintong Han) - ongoing
Israa Hashem - ongoing
Shahidul Islam - ongoing
Council Member
Society for Social Choice and Welfare, 2016-2021