Economics Faculty Directory

Tayfun Sönmez

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 Ünver, 2004. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119:2, 457-488

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

Downloadable ɬ﷬ Working Papers

Working Paper 1069. Tayfun Sönmez (ɬ﷬), M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications", (03/2024; PDF)

Working Paper 1068. Tayfun Sönmez (ɬ﷬), M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory", (04/2024; PDF)

Working Paper 1054. Tayfun Sönmez (ɬ﷬) and M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "How (not) to reform India's affirmative action policies for its economically weaker segments." (11/2022; PDF)

Working Paper 1035. Kyle Greenberg (US Military Academy, West Point), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun Sönmez (ɬ﷬), "Mechanism Design meets Priority Design: Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process Through Market Design" (06/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 1026. Tayfun Sönmez (ɬ﷬) and M. Bumin Yenmez (ɬ﷬), "Can Economic Theory be Informative for the Judiciary? Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations." (01/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 1019. Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Harald Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), Adam Solomon (MIT), Edwin Song (MIT), Tayfun Sönmez (ɬ﷬), and M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "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 Sönmez (ɬ﷬), M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), and M. Bumin Yenmez (ɬ﷬), "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 Sönmez (ɬ﷬), and M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design." (05/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 997. Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, M. Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, and M. Bumin Yenmez, ɬ﷬, "Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing.", (04/2020; PDF)

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

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

Working Paper 990. Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬ and M. Bumin Yenmez, ɬ﷬, "Affirmative Action with Overlapping Reserves", (12/2019; PDF)

Working Paper 978. Tayfun Sönmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, ɬ﷬, "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 Sönmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, ɬ﷬, "Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations", (3/2019; PDF)"

Working Paper 951. Haluk Ergin, University of California at Berkeley, Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, and M. Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, "Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange", (5/2018; PDF)

Working Paper 932. Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, and M. Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, “Market Design for Living-Donor Organ Exchanges: An Economic Policy Perspective”, (6/30/17; PDF)

Working Paper 931. Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, M. Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, and M. Bumin Yenmez, ɬ﷬, “Incentivized Kidney Exchange”, (6/30/17; PDF)

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

Working Paper 900. Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, M. Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, and Özgür Yilmaz, Koç University, "" (1/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 886: Haluk Ergin, University of California, Berkeley, Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, and Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, "" (rev. 2/2017; PDF)

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

Working Paper 868. Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver, "" (1/2015; PDF)

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

Working Paper 805. Orhan Aygün (ɬ﷬) and Tayfun Sönmez, "" (6/2012: PDF)