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Szilvia Pápai, PhD

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  • Associate Professor, Economics
  • CIREQ Research Fellow

Thesis supervision details

Supervised programs: Economics (MA), Economics (PhD)

Research areas: Matching Theory, Market Design, Game Theory

Contact information

Email:

szilvia.papai@concordia.ca

Websites:

Personal website
Google Scholar

Biography

Research interests

Matching Theory, Axiomatic Resource Allocation, Market Design, Coalition Formation, Social Choice Theory

Education

PhD: Caltech

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

Editorial Positions

Advisory/Associate Editor:

  •      Games and Economic Behavior
  •      Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
  •      Social Choice and Welfare

Recent Research

"Strategyproof Maximum Matching with Dichotomus Agent Preferences" with Haris Aziz and Shahidul Islam (working paper)

"Affirmative Action Policies in School Choice: Immediate versus Deferred Acceptance" with Muntasir Chaudhury (working paper)

"Balanced Exchange in a Multi-Unit Shapley-Scarf Market" with Péter Biró and Flip Klijn (working paper)

"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" with Nickesha Ayoade, Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 137: 317-341.

"Serial Rules in a Multi-Unit Shapley-Scarf Market" with Péter Biró and Flip Klijn, Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 136: 428-453.

"Preference Aggregation for Couples" with Rouzbeh Ghouchani, Social Choice and Welfare, 2022, 59: 889-923.

Recent Presentations

Keynote Lectures

27th Coalition Theory Network Workshop, Corvinus University of Budapest, May 2024
16th Social Choice and Welfare conference, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2022 - Condorcet Lecture

Recent Research Talks

SAET Conference, Ischia, Italy, July 2025
Workshop on Social Choice, Game Theory, and Mechanism Design in honor of Hervé Moulin’s 75th birthday, University of Glasgow,Glasgow, UK, June 2025
Conference on Ecnomic Design, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, June 2025
Recent Advances in School Choice Workshop, University of Montevideo, April 2025
Dalhousie University, March 2025
Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, November 2024
Normative Economics and Economic Policy webinar series (virtual), October 2024
Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Budapest, Hungary, July 2024
17th Social Choice and Welfare conference, Paris, France, July 2024
University of Padova, May 2024
Lausanne Matching and Market Design Workshop, University of Lausanne, May 2024
Özyegin University (virtual), April 2024
University of Queensland, April 2024
University of Melbourne, April 2024
Deakin University, April 2024
UNSW, School of Computer Science and Engineering, April 2024
University of Technology Sydney, April 2024
University of Sydney, April 2024
SAET Conference, Santiago, Chile, January 2024
2nd UB workshop on Game Theory, University of Barcelona, November 2023
Kyushu University, Department of Informatics, November 2023
Kyoto University, KIER, November 2023
7th Spain-Japan Meeting on Economic Theory, Waseda University, October 2023 
University of Tokyo, Market Design Center, October 2023 - four lectures on "Axiomatic Approaches to Affirmative Action and Preferential Treatment Policies in Matching Design"
Hitotsubashi University, October 2023
2023 Ottawa Microeconomic Theory Workshop, September 2023
University of Rochester, September 2023

Recent Grants

FRQ Team Grant 2025-2029: "Conception de marché appliquée," co-investigator
SSHRC Insight Grant 2023-2026: "Segregation and Priority Treatment Policies in School Choice Design," principal investigator

PhD Student Supervision

  • Pooya Ghasvareh (2019) - Lead Data Scientist, Health Canada, Drug and Medical Device Shortage Directorate
  • Nickesha Ayoade  (2020) - Research Analyst, Professional Engineers Ontario
  • Dilek Sayedahmed (2021) - Global Lead, Engagement & Partnerships – Research & Incubations, Groupe Équité et Inclusion / Equity & Inclusion Consultancy (EIC), Paris, France, and Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, NYU Paris
  • Asefeh Salarinezhad (2021) - Assistant Professor (LTA), Department of Economics, Concordia University
  • Rouzbeh Ghouchani (2021, co-supervised with Dipjyoti Majumdar) - Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Studies, University Canada West (UCW)
  • Muntasir Chaudhury (2023) - Associate Professor, Department of Economics, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Manuel Lepage Lévesque (co-supervised with Ming Li) - ongoing
  • Yuxing Liang (co-supervised with Xintong Han) - ongoing
  • Md. Shahidul Islam - ongoing
  • Israa Hashem (co-supervised with Gabrielle Vasey) - ongoing

Courses

ECON 695: Economic Design
ECON 614: Game Theory
ECON 440/540: Market Design
ECON 464/564: Game Theory

Recent Conference and Workshop Organization

  • 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
  • SAET conference, Paris (France), July 2023: organizer of one session
  • SAET conference, Santiago (Chile), January 2024: organizer of two sessions
  • Social Choice and Welfare conference, Paris (France), July 2024: program committee member
  • Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Budapest (Hungary), July 2024: program committee member, organizer of two sessions
  • SAET conference, Ischia (Italy), July 2025: organizer of two sessions

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