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Positions

  • Associate Professor, Boston College, Department of Economics (Sep. 2008-present)
    • Tenured (May 2008)

  • Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics (Sep. 2005-Aug. 2008)
    • Voted as full professor (Nov. 2007)

  • Assistant Professor, Koç University, Department of Economics (Sep. 2000-Aug. 2005)

Visiting Positions

  • Research Fellow, Harvard Business School (Sep. 2002-Aug. 2003)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh (2000)

  • M.A. in Economics, Bilkent University (1995)

  • B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University (1993)

Editorial and Professional Affiliations

Grants, Awards, Honors

Grants

Awards and Honors

  • Outstanding Faculty, University of Pittsburgh (2006)

  • Faculty Summer Research Award, University of Pittsburgh (2006)

  • Research Promotion Award, Prof. Mustafa Parlar Foundation (2005)

  • Promotion Award in Social Sciences, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) (2004)

  • Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Pittsburgh (2000)

  • Graduate Student Paper Prize, Society for Computational Economics (1999)

Teaching

Spring 2009, 2010

Spring 2008

  • Matching Market Design (PhD)

Research Areas

  • Microeconomic Theory
    • Mechanism Design
    • Market Design
    • Game Theory
    • Theory of Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources
    • Social Choice

  • Agent-Based Computational Economics

  • Experimental Economics

Selected Publications

Chronological List of All Publications My CV

All Publications by Topic

Surveys on Matching and Market Design

  • Market Design for Kidney Exchange (with Tayfun Sönmez) Z. Neeman, M. Niederle, N. Vulkan (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Market Design, forthcoming [invited]

  • Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources (Draft) (with Tayfun Sönmez), J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M. Jackson (eds.) Handbook of Social Economics, Elsevier, forthcoming [invited]

    • Market Design for Kidney Exchange

  • Dynamic Kidney Exchange, Review of Economic Studies, (January 2010) 77 (1): 372-414

  • A Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chain," (with Michael Rees et al.) The New England Journal of Medicine, (March 2009) 360 (11): 1096-1101

  • Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences (with Tayfun Sönmez and Alvin E. Roth) American Economic Review, (June, 2007) 97(3): 828-851.

  • Kidney Paired Donation with Compatible Pairs (with Alvin E.Roth and Tayfun Sönmez), American Journal of Transplantation, (2007) 7: 1

  • Utilizing List Exchange and Non-directed Donation through "Chain" Paired Kidney Donations (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, Francis L. Delmonico and Susan L. Saidman), American Journal of Transplantation, (November, 2006) 6: 2694–2705.

  • Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation By Matching for Two and Three Way Exchanges (with Susan Saidman, Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, and Francis L. Delmonico), Transplantation, (March, 2006) 81: 773–782.

  • Pairwise Kidney Exchange (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez), Journal of Economic Theory, (December, 2005) 125: 151-188.

  • A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, (May, 2005) 95(2): 376-380.

  • Kidney Exchange (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez) Quarterly Journal of Economics, (May, 2004) 119: 457-488.

    • Axiomatic Mechanism Design

  • House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A Characterization (with Tayfun Sönmez) Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.

    • Market Design for Room/House Allocation

  • House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence (with Tayfun Sönmez), Games and Economic Behavior, (July, 2005) 52: 153-185.

  • Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Tayfun Sönmez), Social Choice and Welfare, (June, 2004) 22: 515-538.

    • Market Design for Course Allocation Schemes

  • Course Bidding at Business Schools (with Tayfun Sönmez), International Economic Review, (February 2010), 51 (1)

  • Improving the Efficiency of Course Bidding at Business Schools: Field and Laboratory Studies (with Aradhna Krishna), Marketing Science, (March/April, 2008) 27: 262-282.

    • Many-to-many Matching Markets

  • Random Paths to Pairwise Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems: A Study on Market Equilibration (with Fuhito Kojima), International Journal of Game Theory, (March, 2008) 36(3-4): 473-488 in the Special Issue Honoring David Gale’s 85th Birthday.

  • Credible Group Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems (with Hideo Konishi), Journal of EconomicTheory, (July, 2006) 129: 57-80.

    • Market Failures in Matching Markets

  • Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matching: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls (with Guillaume Frechette and Alvin E. Roth), RAND Journal ofEconomics, (Winter, 2007) 38(4): 967–982.

  • Equilibrium Selection and the Role of Information in Repeated Matching Markets (with Ernan Haruvy), Economics Letters, (February, 2007) 94: 284-289.

  • Games of Capacity Manipulation in Hospital-InternMarkets (with Hideo Konishi), Social Choice and Welfare,(August, 2006) 27: 3-24.

  • The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of Proposals for Reform of the Market (with Ernan Haruvy and Alvin E. Roth), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, (March,2006) 30: 457-486.

  • On the Survival of Some Unstable Two-Sided Matching Mechanisms, International Journal of Game Theory, (June, 2005) 33: 239-254.

  • Backward Unraveling over Time: The Evolution of Strategic Behavior in the Entry-Level British Medical Labor Markets, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, (June, 2001) 25: 1039-1080.

    • Market Design for Auction Environments

  • Internet Auctions with Artificial Adaptive Agents: A Study on Market Design (with John Duffy), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (August 2008) 67 (2): 394-417.

  • Asset Price Bubbles and Crashes withNear-Zero-Intelligence Traders (with John Duffy), Economic Theory, (April, 2006) 27: 537-563.

  • On Determination of Optimal Reserve Prices in Auctions with Common Knowledge about the Ranking of Valuations (with A. Alexander Elbittar), Murat R. Sertel and Semih Koray (Eds.) Advances in Economic Design, Springer- Verlag Berlin (2003) 79 – 94. [refereed]

    • Working Papers

    You can find some of my current working papers below. Please revisit for updates. Any comments are welcome.

    1. A Theory of School-Choice Lotteries (Abstract) (with Onur Kesten)

    2. The "Boston" School-Choice Mechanism (with Fuhito Kojima) Boston College Working Papers in Economics, No: 729

    3. Altruistic Kidney Exchange (with Tayfun Sonmez)

    4. Individually Rational Discrete Resource Allocation (Abstract) (with Marek Pycia)

    5. Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation (with Alvin E. Roth and Muriel Niederle) Boston College Working Papers in Economics, No: 718

    6. A Theory of House Allocation and Exchange Mechanisms (with Marek Pycia)

    7. Market Mechanisms for Fair Allocation of Indivisible Objects and Money

    8. Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models (with Herve Cres)

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