Szilvia Pápai, PhD
Associate Professor, Economics
Biography Recent Grants PhD Student Supervision Recent Conference and Workshop Organization Selected Publications Teaching Research Editorial Positions
| Email: | szilvia.papai@concordia.ca |
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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
Recent Grants
SSHRC Insight Grant 2023-2026: "Segregation and Priority Treatment Policies in School Choice Design"
PhD Student Supervision
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Pooya Ghasvareh (2019) - Bio Statistician/Researcher, Health Canada
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Nickesha Ayoade (2020) - Research Analyst, Professional Engineers Ontario
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Dilek Sayedahmed (2021) - Senior Research Fellow, WISIR, University of Waterloo
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Asefeh Salarinezhad (2021) - Assistant Professor (LTA), Dept. of Economics, Concordia University
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Rouzbeh Ghouchani (2021, co-supervised with Dipjyoti Majumdar) - Assistant Professor, Economics, University Canada West
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Muntasir Chaudhury (2023) - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, East West University, Dhaka
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Manuel Lepage Lévesque (co-supervised with Ming Li) - ongoing
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Yuxing Liang (co-supervised with Xintong Han) - ongoing
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Md. Shahidul Islam - ongoing
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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
Keynote Lectures
Recent Research Talks
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
Editorial Positions
Advisory/Associate Editor:
Games and Economic Behavior
Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
Social Choice and Welfare