Economics Faculty Directory

Tayfun S枚nmez

Professor

Department

Economics

Selected Publications

"Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at the United States Military Academy", with Tobias Switzer, 2013. Econometrica, 81:2, 451-488

"School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation," Parag Pathak, 2013. American Economic Review, 103:1, 80-106

"Bidding for Army Career Specialties: Improving the ROTC Branching Mechanism", 2013. Journal of Political Economy, 121:1, 186-219

"Kidney Exchange," with Alvin Roth and M. Utku 脺nver, 2004. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119:2, 457-488

"School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach," with Atila Abdulkadiro臒lu, 2003. American Economic Review, 93:3, 729-747

Downloadable Boston College Working Papers

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

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

Working Paper聽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聽1035. Kyle Greenberg (US Military Academy, West Point), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College), "Mechanism Design meets Priority Design: Redesigning the US Army鈥檚 Branching Process Through Market Design" (06/2021; PDF)

Working Paper聽1026. Tayfun S枚nmez (Boston College) and M. Bumin Yenmez (Boston College),聽"Can Economic Theory be Informative for the Judiciary? Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations." (01/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 1019.聽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.聽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聽995.聽Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University, and Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College, "Reversing Reserves", (04/2020; PDF)

Working Paper聽993.聽Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University, and Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College, "Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms", (01/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 990.聽Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College and聽M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Affirmative Action with Overlapping Reserves", (12/2019; PDF)

Working Paper 978. Tayfun S枚nmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Constitutional Implementation of Vertical and Horizontal Reservations in India: A Unified Mechanism for Civil Service Allocation and College Admissions", (4/2019; PDF)

Working Paper 977. Tayfun S枚nmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations", (3/2019; PDF)"

Working Paper 951. Haluk Ergin,聽University of California at Berkeley,聽Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, and聽M. Utku 脺nver, Boston College, "Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange", (5/2018; PDF)

Working Paper 932.聽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.聽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 906.聽Umut Mert Dur, North Carolina State University, Parag A. Pathak, MIT, and Tayfun S枚nmez, "Explicit vs. Statistical Preferential Treatment in Affirmative Action: Theory and Evidence from Chicago鈥檚 Exam Schools" (3/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 900. Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, M. Utku 脺nver, Boston College, and 脰zg眉r Yilmaz, Ko莽 University, "" (1/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 886:聽Haluk Ergin, University of California, Berkeley, Tayfun S枚nmez, Boston College, and Utku 脺nver, Boston College, "" (rev. 2/2017; PDF)

Working Paper 872. Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University) and Tayfun S枚nmez, "" (12/2014; PDF)

Working Paper 868. Tayfun S枚nmez and M. Utku 脺nver, "" (1/2015; PDF)

Working Paper 806. Scott Duke Kominers (University of Chicago) and Tayfun S枚nmez, "" (7/2012: PDF)

Working Paper 805. Orhan Ayg眉n (Boston College) and Tayfun S枚nmez, "" (6/2012: PDF)