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 B次元 Working Papers

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

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

Working Paper聽1054. Tayfun S枚nmez (B次元) and M. Utku 脺nver (B次元), "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 (B次元), "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 (B次元) and M. Bumin Yenmez (B次元),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 (B次元), and M. Utku 脺nver (B次元), "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 (B次元), M. Utku 脺nver (B次元), and M. Bumin Yenmez (B次元), "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 (B次元), and M. Utku 脺nver (B次元), "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, B次元, M. Utku 脺nver, B次元, and M. Bumin Yenmez, B次元, "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, B次元, "Reversing Reserves", (04/2020; PDF)

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

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

Working Paper 978. Tayfun S枚nmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, B次元, "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, B次元, "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, B次元, and聽M. Utku 脺nver, B次元, "Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange", (5/2018; PDF)

Working Paper 932.聽Tayfun S枚nmez, B次元, and M. Utku 脺nver, B次元, 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, B次元, M. Utku 脺nver, B次元, and M. Bumin Yenmez, B次元, 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, B次元, M. Utku 脺nver, B次元, 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, B次元, and Utku 脺nver, B次元, "" (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 (B次元) and Tayfun S枚nmez, "" (6/2012: PDF)