Faculty
Szilvia Pápai, PhD
Associate Professor, Economics
Biography Research Selected Publications Editorial Positions Teaching Conference and Workshop Organization PhD Student Supervision
| Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 5016 |
| Email: | szilvia.papai@concordia.ca |
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Szilvia Pápai |
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On sabbatical leave in 2023-24 |
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
Recent Papers
"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.
"Balanced Exchange in a Multi-Unit Shapley-Scarf Market" with Péter Biró and Flip Klijn
"Targeted Priority Reserve Policies" with Dilek Sayedahmed
Current Research Projects
"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" in The Future of Economic Design, Springer 2019
Recent Research Talks
"Affirmative Action Policies in School Choice: Immediate versus Deferred Acceptance" University of Hawaii, February 2023
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" virtual seminar at ISI Delhi, December 2022
"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
Selected Publications
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"School Choice withPreference Rank Classes," with Nickesha Ayoade, Games and Economic Behavior (2023) 137: 317-341.
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"Exchange in a GeneralMarket with Indivisible Goods," Journal of Economic Theory (2007)132: 208-237
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"Strategyproof Assignment byHierarchical Exchange," Econometrica (2000) 68: 1403-1433
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor:
Social Choice and Welfare
Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
Teaching
ECON 695: Economic Design
ECON 614: Game Theory
ECON 440/540: Market Design
ECON 464/564: Game Theory
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, July 2022: organizer of two sessions
- SAET conference, Paris, July 2023: organizer of one session
- Social Choice and Welfare conference, Paris, June 2024: program committee member
PhD Student Supervision
Nickesha Ayoade (2020) - Research Analyst, Professional Engineers Ontario
Dilek Sayedahmed (2021) - Senior Research Fellow, WISIR, University of Waterloo
Asefeh Salarinezhad (2021) - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Economics, University of Ottawa
Yuxing Liang (co-supervised with Xintong Han) - ongoing
Israa Hashem (co-supervised with Gabrielle Vasey) - ongoing
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