Economics Faculty Directory

M. Utku Ünver

Professor

Department

Economics

Selected Publications

“Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange,” with Haluk Ergin and Tayfun Sönmez, May 2020. Econometrica, 88(3): 965-1005

“Two-Sided Matching via Balanced Exchange,” 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,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 Sönmez, 2004. Quarterly Journal ofEconomics, 119, 457-488

Downloadable Working Papers

Working Paper1069. 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 Paper1054. 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 Paper1050. Julien Combe (École Polytechnique), Umut Mert Dur (North Carolina State University),Olivier Tercieux (Paris School of Economics),Camille Terrier (University of Lausanne),M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools." (02/2022; PDF)

Working Paper1044. Marek Pycia (University of Zurich),M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "Arrovian Efficiency and Auditability in Discrete Mechanism Design." (11/2021; PDF)

Working Paper1038. Xiang Han (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), Onur Kesten (University of Sydney), M. Utku Ünver (ɬ﷬), "Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: A Theory of Multi-unit Exchange with Compatibility-based Preferences" (06/2021; 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 951. Haluk Ergin,University of California at Berkeley,Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, andM. Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, "Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange", (05/2018; 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 916.Marek Pycia, UCLA, and M. Utku Unver, ɬ﷬, "Arrovian Efficiency in Allocation of Discrete Resources" (08/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 900.Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, M. Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, and Özgür Yilmaz, Koç University, "How (Not) to Integrate Blood Subtyping Technology to Kidney Exchange" (01/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 886.Haluk Ergin, University of California, Berkeley, Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬, and Utku Ünver, ɬ﷬, "Dual-Donor Organ Exchange" (rev. 02/2017; PDF)

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

Working Paper 870.Marek Pycia(UCLA) andM. Utku Ünver, "Decomposing Random Mechanisms" (09/2014; PDF)

Working Paper 868. Tayfun Sönmez, ɬ﷬,andM. Utku Ünver, "Enhancing the Efficiency of and Equity in Transplant Organ Allocation via Incentivized Exchange" (01/2015; PDF)