“Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and The Demise of Boston’s Walk Zones,” (joint with Umut Dur, Scott Duke Kominers, and Parag A. Pathak), Journal of Political Economy, 126(6), December 2018. [ PDF ] [ Testimony to Boston School Committee ] [ Related Op-ed ]
Author Archives: Tayfun Sonmez
Dual-Donor Organ Exchange
“Dual-Donor Organ Exchange,” (joint with Haluk Ergin and Utku Ünver), Econometrica 85(5): 1645-1671, September 2017. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Supplemental Appendix ] [ Press Coverage ].
School choice under complete information: An experimental study
“School Choice Under Complete Information: An Experimental Study,” (joint with Yan Chen and Yingzhi Liang), Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, 1(1): 45-82, December 2016.
Matching with Slot-Specific Priorities: Theory
“Matching with Slot-Specific Priorities: Theory,” (joint with Scott Duke Kominers), Theoretical Economics, 11(2), 683-710, May 2016. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ]
Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation: Operations Research Changes the Way Kidneys Are Transplanted
“Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation: Operations Research Changes the Way Kidneys Are Transplanted,” (joint with Ross Anderson, Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael Rees, Alvin Roth and Utku Unver), INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 45-1: 26-42, January-February 2015. [ Informs link ]
Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange
Cadet-Branch Matching
“Cadet-Branch Matching,” ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 13(1): 50-57, June 2014. [PDF] [Policy Impact ]
“Market Design for Kidney Exchange”
“Market Design for Kidney Exchange.” (with Utku Ünver) Z. Neeman, A. Roth, N. Vulkan (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Market Design, Oxford, 2013. [ PDF ]
“Matching with Contracts: Comment”
“Matching with Contracts: Comment.” (joint with with Orhan Aygün), American Economic Review, 103(5): 2050-2051, August 2013. [ Abstract ] [ PDF ] [ Detailed Working Paper ]
“Matching Markets: Theory and Practice”
“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 ]