Economics Faculty Directory

M. Utku 脺nver

Professor

Department

Economics

Selected Publications

鈥淓fficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange,鈥 with Haluk Ergin and Tayfun S枚nmez, May 2020. Econometrica, 88(3): 965-1005

鈥淭wo-Sided Matching via Balanced Exchange,鈥 with Umut Mert Dur, 2019. Journal of Political Economy, (2019) 127(3): 1156-1177

"Incentive Compatible Allocation and Exchange of Discrete Resources," with Marek Pycia,听January, 2017. Theoretical Economics, 12(1): 287-329.

"Dynamic Kidney Exchange", 2010. Review of Economic Studies, 77:1, 372- 414

"Kidney Exchange", with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun S枚nmez, 2004. Quarterly Journal of听Economics, 119, 457-488

Downloadable Working Papers

Working Paper听1069. Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College),听M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications", (03/2024; PDF)

Working Paper 1068. Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College),听M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory", (04/2024; PDF)

Working Paper听1054. Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College) and M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "How (not) to reform India's affirmative action policies for its economically weaker segments." (11/2022; PDF)

Working Paper听1050. Julien Combe (脡cole Polytechnique), Umut Mert Dur (North Carolina State University),听Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics),听Camille Terrier (University of Lausanne),听M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools." (02/2022; PDF)

Working Paper听1044. Marek Pycia (University of Zurich),听M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "Arrovian Efficiency and Auditability in Discrete Mechanism Design." (11/2021; PDF)

Working Paper听1038. Xiang Han (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), Onur Kesten (University of Sydney), M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-unit Exchange with Compatibility-based Preferences" (06/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 1019.听Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Harald Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), Adam Solomon (MIT), Edwin Song (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College), and M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "Do Black and Indigenous Communities Receive their Fair Share of Vaccines Under the 2018 CDC Guidelines?" (10/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 1015. Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College), M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), and M. Bumin Yenmez (Boston College), "Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing." (07/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 1007. Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College), and M. Utku 脺nver (Boston College), "Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design." (05/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 997.听Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, M. Utku 脺nver, Boston College, and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing.", (04/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 951. Haluk Ergin,听University of California at Berkeley,听Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, and听M. Utku 脺nver, Boston College, "Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange", (05/2018; PDF)

Working Paper 932. Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, and M. Utku 脺nver, Boston College, 鈥Market Design for Living-Donor Organ Exchanges: An Economic Policy Perspective鈥, (6/30/17; PDF)

Working Paper 931.听Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, M. Utku 脺nver, Boston College, and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, 鈥Incentivized Kidney Exchange鈥, (6/30/17; PDF)

Working Paper 916.听Marek Pycia, UCLA, and M. Utku Unver, Boston College, "Arrovian Efficiency in Allocation of Discrete Resources" (08/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 900.听Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, M. Utku 脺nver, Boston College, and 脰zg眉r Yilmaz, Ko莽 University, "How (Not) to Integrate Blood Subtyping Technology to Kidney Exchange" (01/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 886.听Haluk Ergin, University of California, Berkeley, Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, and Utku 脺nver, Boston College, "Dual-Donor Organ Exchange" (rev. 02/2017; PDF)

Working Paper 871.听Nejat Anbarci (Durham University), Ching-Jen Sun (Deakin University) and听M. Utku 脺nver, "Designing Practical and Fair Sequential Team Contests" (Rev: 04/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 870.听Marek Pycia听(UCLA) and听M. Utku 脺nver, "Decomposing Random Mechanisms" (09/2014; PDF)

Working Paper 868. Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College,听and听M. Utku 脺nver, "Enhancing the Efficiency of and Equity in Transplant Organ Allocation via Incentivized Exchange" (01/2015; PDF)