Publications

Refereed Journal Publications | Other Publications

Refereed Journal Publications

  • “Bidding for Army Career Specialties: Improving the ROTC Branching Mechanism.” Journal of Political Economy, 121(1):  186-219, February 2013. [ PDF ] [ Policy Impact ] [ Media ]

  • “House Allocation with Existing Tenants: A Characterization.” (joint with Utku Ünver), Games and Economic Behavior, 69(2): 425-445, July 2010. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Course Bidding at Business Schools.” (joint with Utku Ünver), International Economic Review, 51(1): 99-123, Feb 2010. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Strategic Players in the Boston Mechanism.” (joint with Parag Pathak), American Economic Review, 98(4), 1636-1652, 2008. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Kidney Paired Donation with Compatible Pairs.” (joint with Alvin Roth and  Utku Ünver), American Journal of Transplantation, 8(2):463, Feb 2008. [ PDF ]

  • “Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences.” (joint with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver), American Economic Review, 97-3: 828-851, June 2007. [ PDF ]  [AppendixMedia

  • “Utilizing List Exchange and Non-directed Donation through “Chain” Paired Kidney Donations.” (joint with Alvin Roth, Utku Ünver, Francis Delmonico and Susan Saidman), American Journal of Transplantation 6(11): 2694-2705, November 2006. [ PDF ]

  • “School Choice: An Experimental Study.” (joint with Yan Chen),  Journal of Economic Theory, 127: 2002-231, March 2006. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Corrigendum ] Press Coverage

  • “Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation by Matching for Two and Three Way Exchanges.” (joint with Susan Saidman, Alvin Roth, Utku Ünver and Francis Delmonico), Transplantation, 81(5): 773-782, March 15, 2006. [ PDF ]

  • “Games of School Choice under the Boston Mechanism” (joint with Haluk Ergin),  Journal of Public Economics, 90: 215-237, January 2006. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Pairwise Kidney Exchange” (joint with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver),  Journal of Economic Theory, 125: 151-188, December 2005. [ PDF ] [ JET 50th Anniversary Special IssueMedia

  • “House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An Equivalence” (joint with Utku Ünver), Games and Economic Behavior 52: 153-185, July 2005. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Utku Ünver), Social Choice and Welfare 22: 515-538, June 2004. [ Abstract ] [ PDFPress Coverage

  • “Kidney Exchange” (joint with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver), Quarterly Journal of Economics 119-2: 457-488, May 2004. (Also see much detailed NBER working paper version.) [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Policy ImpactMedia

  • “An Experimental Study of House Allocation Mechanisms” (joint with Yan Chen), Economics Letters 83-1: 137-140, April 2004. [ PDF ]

  • “Ordinal Efficiency and Dominated Sets of Assignments” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu), Journal of Economic Theory 112: 157-172, September 2003. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach”  (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu), American Economic Review 93-3: 729-747, June 2003. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Policy Impact ] Press Coverage

  • “Improving Efficiency of On-Campus Housing: An Experimental Study.” (joint with Yan Chen), American Economic Review 92-5: 1669-1686, December 2002. [ Abstract ][ PDF ]

  • “Core in a Simple Coalition Formation Game.” (joint with Suryapratim Banarjee and Hideo Konishi), Social Choice and Welfare 18: 135-153, 2001. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “House Allocation with Existing Tenants.” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu), Journal of Economic Theory 88: 233-260, October 1999. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Strategy-Proofness and Essentially Single-Valued Cores.” Econometrica 67: 677-689, May 1999. [ PDF ]

  • “Can Pre-Arranged Matches be Avoided in Two-Sided Matching Markets?”  Journal of Economic Theory 86: 148-156,  May 1999. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “A Tale of Two Mechanisms: Student Placement.” (joint with Michel Balinski), Journal of Economic Theory, 84: 73-94, January 1999. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Policy Impact ]

  • “Random Serial Dictatorship and the Core from Random Endowments in House Allocation Problems.” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu), Econometrica 66: 689-701, May 1998. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Manipulation via Capacities in Two-Sided Matching Markets.”  Journal of Economic Theory 77: 197-204, November 1997. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Games of Manipulation in Marriage Problems.” Games and Economic Behavior 20: 169-176, 1997. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Implementation of College Admission Rules.” (joint with Tarık Kara), Economic Theory 9: 197-218, 1997. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Implementation in Generalized Matching Problems.”  Journal of Mathematical Economics 26: 429-439, 1996. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Strategy-Proofness in Many-to-One Matching Problems.” Economic Design 1: 365-380, 1996.

  • “Nash Implementation of Matching Rules.” (joint with Tarık Kara), Journal of Economic Theory 68: 425-439, February 1996. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]

  • “Consistency, Monotonicity, and the Uniform Rule.” Economics Letters 46: 229-235, 1994.

  • Other Publications

    • Fair access to scarce medical capacity for non-covid-19 patients: a role for reserves,” (joint with Govind Persad, Parag Pathak, and  M Utku Ünver),  BMJ 2022;376:o276.

    • “Cadet-Branch Matching,” ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 13(1): 50-57, June 2014. [PDF] [Policy Impact ]

    • “Market Design for Kidney Exchange.” (with Utku Ünver) Z. Neeman, A. Roth, N. Vulkan (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Market Design, Oxford, 2013. [ PDF ]

    • “Matching Markets: Theory and Practice.” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu), D. Acemoglu, M. Arello, and E. Dekel (eds),  Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 1,  Cambridge, 3-47, 2013. [ PDF ]

    • “Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources.” (joint with Utku Ünver), J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M. Jackson (eds.), Handbook of Social Economics, Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A. The Netherlands: North-Holland, (2011) 781-852. [ PDF ]

    • “Matching.” (joint with Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. [ PDF ]

    • “The Boston Public School Match.” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag Pathak and Alvin Roth), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 95-2: 368-371, May 2005. [ PDF ]

    • “A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England.” (joint with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 95-2: 376-380, May 2005. [ PDF ]