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Szilvia Pápai, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Economics

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On sabbatical leave in 2023-24

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Biography

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

Recent Grants

SSHRC Insight Grant 2023-2026: "Segregation and Priority Treatment Policies in School Choice Design"

PhD Student Supervision

  • Pooya Ghasvareh (2019) - Bio Statistician/Researcher, Health Canada
  • Nickesha Ayoade  (2020) - Research Analyst, Professional Engineers Ontario
  • Dilek Sayedahmed (2021) - Senior Research Fellow, WISIR, University of Waterloo
  • Asefeh Salarinezhad (2021) - Assistant Professor (LTA), Dept. of Economics, Concordia University
  • Rouzbeh Ghouchani (2021, co-supervised with Dipjyoti Majumdar) - Assistant Professor, Economics, University Canada West
  • Muntasir Chaudhury (2023) - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, East West University, Dhaka
  • 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

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

Selected Publications

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

"Exchange in a General Market with Indivisible Goods," Journal of Economic Theory (2007)132: 208-237

"Strategyproof Assignment by Hierarchical Exchange," Econometrica (2000) 68: 1403-1433

Teaching

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

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
"Affirmative Action Policies in School Choice: Immediate versus Deferred Acceptance" with Muntasir Chaudhury
"Fair Maximum Matching Under Dichotomous Preferences" with Shahidul Islam

Keynote Lectures

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

Recent Research Talks

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

Editorial Positions

Advisory/Associate Editor:
     Games and Economic Behavior
     Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
     Social Choice and Welfare

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