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

• President, Society for Economic Design(2008-present)
• Associate Editor, BE Journal of Theoretical Economics (2007-present)

Grants, Awards, Honors

Grants

• NSF Grant: “CollaborativeResearch: Kidney Exchange” No: SES #0616689 (as Principal Investigator)(2006-2008) (grant amount: $69,870)
• Distinguished Young Scholar Award (GEBIP) by Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) (2005) (award amount - net of university costs: ~$23,000)
• NSF Grant: “EHP:Market Culture, Performance, and the Timing of Transactions” No: SES#0338619  (as Co-Principal Investigator) (2004-2008) (grant amount:$323,338 including two other PIs)
• Summer Grant, Koç University (2001 and 2003)

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

• EC 741 Microeconomic Theory II - Game Theory and Information Economics (PhD)
• EC 201 Microeconomic Theory

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

• Here is an extended summary of my research areas for economists and non-economists.
• More resources about my research and me:
  • My Boston College Departmental Web-Page
  • My SSRN Working Paper Archive Web-Page
  • My REPEC Working Papers Archive Web-Page
  • My Google Scholar Listing
  • My CV

Publications

1. Dynamic Kidney Exchange, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
2. House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A Characterization (with Tayfun Sönmez) Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming
   • Older version
3. Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources (with Tayfun Sönmez), Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, and Matthew Jackson (eds.) Handbook of Social Economics, Elsevier, forthcoming
4. Course Bidding at Business Schools (with Tayfun Sönmez), International Economic Review, forthcoming, (February 2010)
   • Older version

5. A Non-simultaneous Extended Altruistic Donor Chain," (with Michael Rees et al.) The New England Journal of Medicine, (March 2009) 360 (11): 1096-1101
6. 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.
7. Improving the Efficiency of Course Bidding at Business Schools: Field and Laboratory Studies (with Aradhna Krishna), Marketing Science, (March/April, 2008) 27: 262-282.

   • Online Appendix

8. 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.
9. Unraveling Yields InefficientMatching: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls (with Guillaume Frechette and Alvin E. Roth), RAND Journal ofEconomics, (Winter, 2007) 38(4): 967–982.

   • Online Appendix

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

    • Online Appendix
    • National Science Foundation’s press release about Kidney Exchange

11. Equilibrium Selection and the Role of Information in Repeated Matching Markets (with Ernan Haruvy), Economics Letters, (February, 2007) 94: 284-289.
12. 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.
13. Games of Capacity Manipulation in Hospital-InternMarkets (with Hideo Konishi), Social Choice and Welfare,(August, 2006) 27: 3-24.
14. Credible Group Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems (with Hideo Konishi), Journal of EconomicTheory, (July, 2006) 129: 57-80.
15. Asset Price Bubbles and Crashes withNear-Zero-Intelligence Traders (with John Duffy), Economic Theory, (April, 2006) 27: 537-563.
16. The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimentaland 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.

    • Online Appendix and Instructions

17. Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney DonationBy 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.
18. Pairwise Kidney Exchange (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez), Journal of Economic Theory, (December, 2005) 125: 151-188.

    • NBER working paper version (2004) of Pairwise Kidney Exchange

19. 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.
• Letter to the Editor: Kidney Paired Donation with Compatible Pairs (with Alvin E.Roth and Tayfun Sönmez), American Journal of Transplantation, (2007) 7: 1
20. House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence (with Tayfun Sönmez), Games and Economic Behavior, (July, 2005) 52: 153-185.
21. On the Survival of Some Unstable Two-Sided Matching Mechanisms, International Journal of Game Theory, (June, 2005) 33: 239-254.

    • Experiment Data
    • Online Appendix

22. Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Tayfun Sönmez), Social Choice and Welfare, (June, 2004) 22: 515-538.
23. Kidney Exchange (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez) Quarterly Journal of Economics, (May, 2004) 119: 457-488.
24. 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.
25. 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.

    • Graduate Student Paper Prize awarded by Society for Computational Economics (SCE) (1999).

Working Papers

1. Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation (with Alvin E. Roth and Muriel Niederle)
2. A Theory of House Allocation and Exchange Mechanisms (with Marek Pycia)
3. Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models (with Herve Cres)