Working Papers

• “Minimalist Market Design: A Framework for Economists with Policy Aspirations” [ PDF ]
• “Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory” (joint with Utku Ünver), prepared for Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume 1, Elsevier, Yeon-Koo Che, Pierre-Andre Chiaporri, and Bernard Salanie (eds).
• “Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications” (joint with Utku Ünver), prepared for Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume 1, Elsevier, Yeon-Koo Che, Pierre-Andre Chiaporri, and Bernard Salanie (eds).
• “Informed Neutrality in Minimalist Market Design: A Case Study on a Constitutional Crisis in India” (joint with Utku Ünver). [ The Hindu Op Ed ] Earlier Version Prior to EWS Quota Judgment
  The current version supersedes the ArXiv working paper “How (Not) to Reform India’s Affirmative Action Policies for Its Economically Weaker Segments’‘ which was circulated before the judgment.
• “Constitutional Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in India,” (joint with M. Bumin Yenmez), revise-and-resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics. [ PDF ] Earlier Version
  The current version supersedes Boston College working paper 978 entitled “Constitutional Implementation of Vertical and Horizontal Reservations in India: A Unified Mechanism for Civil Service Allocation and College Admissions.”Due to a recent Supreme Court ruling in India, the entire manuscript is re-written, and the analytical results in the two papers are mutually exclusive. Therefore, readers who are theoretically inclined are encourage to see both versions.
  

     Passive Working Papers

• “Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design,” (joint with Scott D. Kominers, Parag Pathak  and Utku Ünver). [ PDF ] [ Media ]
• “Affirmative Action with Overlapping Reserves,” (joint with M. Bumin Yenmez). [ PDF ]
• “Enhancing the Efficiency of and Equity in Transplant Organ Allocation via Incentivized Exchange, ” (joint with Utku Ünver). [ PDF ]
•  “Lung Exchange” (joint with Haluk Ergin and Utku Ünver). [ PDF ] [ Press Coverage ]
• “Designing for Diversity in Matching” (joint with Scott Duke Kominers).  [ PDF ]
  
• “The Importance of Irrelevance of Rejected Contracts in Matching under Weakened Substitutes Conditions,” (joint with Orhan Aygün). [ PDF ]
• “Matching with Contracts: Critical Role of Irrelevance of Rejected Contracts,” (joint with Orhan Aygün). [ PDF ]
• “Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism: Strategy-proofness as Equal Access,” (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag Pathak, and Alvin Roth). [ PDF ]
• “Transplant Center Incentives in Kidney Exchange,” (joint with Alvin Roth and Utku Ünver). [ PDF ]

  Retired Papers

• “Population Monotonicity of the Nucleolus on a Class of Public Good Problems.” [ PDF ]