Tayfun Sonmez

Boston College - Department of Economics

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Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources

HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS, Vol. 1A, pp. 781-852, Alberto Bisin, Jess Benhabib, and Matthew Jackson, eds., North-Holland, 2011
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 07 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2011
Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A Characterization

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2008
Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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House allocation, matching, strategy-proofness, consistency, individual rationality, Pareto efficiency, neutrality

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Rationing Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccines: Allocating to States Proportionate to Population May Undermine Commitments to Mitigating Health Disparities

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Nov 2020
Harald Schmidt, Parag A. Pathak, Michelle A. Williams, Tayfun Sonmez, M. Utku Ünver and Lawrence O. Gostin
University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston College - Department of Economics, Boston College, Department of Economics and Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
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What Prioritizing Worse-Off Minority Groups for COVID-19 Vaccines Means Quantitatively: Practical, Legal and Ethical Implications

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Nov 2020
Harald Schmidt, M. Utku Ünver, Michelle A. Williams, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sonmez and Lawrence O. Gostin
University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Boston College, Department of Economics, Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Boston College - Department of Economics and Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
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Course Bidding at Business Schools

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2008
Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Course Allocation, Matching, Market Design, Deferred Acceptance

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Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences

American Economic Review, Vol. 97, No. 3, 2007
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Oct 2008
Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Dept. of Economics, Stanford University, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing

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Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sonmez, M. Utku Ünver and M. Bumin Yenmez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Boston College - Department of Economics, Boston College, Department of Economics and Boston College
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Enhancing the Efficiency of and Equity in Transplant Organ Allocation via Incentivized Exchange

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2015
Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Market design, organ allocation, kidney exchange, equity, efficiency, compatible pairs

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House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Jan 2002
Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Core, House Allocation, Housing Lottery, Indivisible Goods, Matching

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Dual-Donor Organ Exchange

Econometrica, Vol. 85, No. 5
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 24 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2018
Haluk Ergin, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
University of California, Berkeley, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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market design, matching, complementarities, lung exchange, dual-graft liver exchange, simultaneous liver-kidney exchange

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Kidney Exchange

NBER Working Paper No. w10002
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 28 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 02 May 2021
Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Dept. of Economics, Stanford University, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Mar 2002
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Duke University - Department of Economics, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism

NBER Working Paper No. w11965
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2021
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sonmez
Duke University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Dept. of Economics, Stanford University and Boston College - Department of Economics
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Pairwise Kidney Exchange

NBER Working Paper No. w10698
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2021
Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Dept. of Economics, Stanford University, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design

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Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 May 2020
Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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COVID-19, convalescent plasma, vouchers

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How (Not) to Integrate Blood Subtyping Technology to Kidney Exchange

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Feb 2016
Tayfun Sonmez, M. Utku Ünver and Özgür Yılmaz
Boston College - Department of Economics, Boston College, Department of Economics and Koç University
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Market design, matching, kidney exchange

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Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

NBER Working Paper No. w11402
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2021
Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Dept. of Economics, Stanford University, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Nov 2012
Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Ünver
Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College, Department of Economics
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Kidney Exchange, Market Design, Matching

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School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation

NBER Working Paper No. w16783
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 12 May 2021
Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sonmez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Boston College - Department of Economics
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The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice

NBER Working Paper No. w18981
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 14 May 2021
Umut Dur, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sonmez
North Carolina State University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Boston College - Department of Economics
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Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism

Posted: 30 Jan 2007
Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sonmez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Boston College - Department of Economics

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Core in a Simple Coalition Formation Game

Posted: 17 Oct 2001
Suryapratim Banerjee, Hideo Konishi and Tayfun Sonmez
McGill University - Department of Economics, Boston College - Department of Economics and Boston College - Department of Economics

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