M.
Utku Ünver
University of PittsburghPositions
Associate Professor, Boston College, Department of
Economics (Sep. 2008-)
Assistant
Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics (Sep. 2005-Aug.
2008) (voted for full professorship:
November 2007)
Assistant Professor, Koç University, Department of
Economics (Sep. 2000-Aug. 2005)
Visiting Positions
Research Fellow, Harvard Business School (Sep.
2002-Aug. 2003)
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School (Summer,
2001)
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 2000.
M.A. in Economics, Bilkent University, 1995.
B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Bilkent University, 1993.
Teaching
Spring
2008
Office Hours: Mondays 1:20-2:50 pm
Econ 2620 Matching Market Design
Econ 1100 Intermediate Microeconomics
Research Areas
Microeconomic Theory: Mechanism Design with Emphasis
in Matching and Allocation Markets, Market Design, Game Theory; Agent-Based
Computational Economics and Experimental Economics. Here is an extended summary of my research areas for economists and
non-economists.
More resources about my research:
My Ideas Working Papers Archive Web-Page
My SSRN Working Paper Archive Web-Page
Refereed
Publications
“Internet Auctions with Artificial Adaptive Agents: A
Study on Market Design” (with John
Duffy) Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
“Improving the Efficiency of
Course Bidding at Business Schools: Field and Laboratory Studies” (with
Aradhna Krishna) Marketing
Science,
(March/April, 2008)
“Random Paths to Pairwise Stability in Many-to-Many
Matching Problems: A Study on Market Equilibration”
(with Fuhito Kojima), International Journal
of Game Theory (March, 2008) 36(3-4): 473-488 in the Special Issue Honoring David
Gale’s 85th Birthday.
“Unraveling Yields Inefficient
Matching: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls” (with Guillaume
Frechette and Alvin E. Roth), RAND Journal of
Economics, (Winter, 2007) 38(4): 967–982.
“Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with
Compatibility-Based Preferences” (with
Tayfun Sönmez and Alvin E. Roth) American
Economic Review, (June, 2007) 97(3): 828-851.
National Science Foundation’s press release about Kidney Exchange
“Equilibrium
Selection and the Role of Information in Repeated Matching Markets” (with
Ernan Haruvy), Economics Letters
(February, 2007) 94: 284-289.
“Games of Capacity Manipulation in Hospital-Intern Markets”
(with Hideo Konishi), Social Choice and
Welfare (August, 2006) 27: 3-24.
“Credible Group Stability in Many-to-Many Matching
Problems” (with Hideo Konishi), Journal of Economic
Theory (July, 2006) 129: 57-80.
“Asset Price Bubbles and Crashes with
Near-Zero-Intelligence Traders” (with John Duffy), Economic Theory
(April, 2006) 27: 537-563.
“The Dynamics of Law Clerk Matching: An Experimental
and Computational Investigation of Proposals for Reform of the Market” (with
Ernan Haruvy and Alvin E. Roth) Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control (March, 2006), 30: 457-486.
Online Appendix and Instructions
“Pairwise Kidney Exchange” (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez),
Journal of Economic
Theory (December, 2005) 125: 151-188.
NBER working paper version of “Pairwise Kidney Exchange” (no:
w10698, August 2004)
“A Kidney
Exchange Clearinghouse in New England” (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun
Sönmez), American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (May,
2005), 95(2): 376-380.
“House Allocation with Existing Tenants: An
Equivalence” (with Tayfun Sönmez), Games and Economic
Behavior (July, 2005) 52: 153-185.
“On the Survival of Some Unstable Two-Sided Matching Mechanisms”,
International Journal of Game Theory
(June, 2005) 33: 239-254.
“Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach”
(with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Tayfun Sönmez), Social Choice and
Welfare (June, 2004), 22: 515-538.
“Kidney Exchange” (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun
Sönmez), Quarterly Journal of
Economics (May, 2004), 119: 457-488.
“On
Determination of Optimal Reserve Prices in Auctions with Common Knowledge about
the Ranking of Valuations” (with A. Alexander Elbittar), Murat R. Sertel,
Semih Koray (Eds.) Advances in
Economic Design. Springer-Verlag
Berlin (2003) 79 – 94.
“Backward Unraveling over Time: The Evolution of
Strategic Behavior in the Entry-Level British Medical Labor Markets”,
Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control (June, 2001), 25: 1039-1080.
‘Best Graduate Student Paper Award on Computational
Economics’ awarded by Society for
Computational Economics (SCE) (1999).
Other Refereed Publications
“Kidney Paired Donation
with Compatible Pairs,” (joint with Alvin Roth and Tayfun Sönmez ), American Journal of
Transplantation, forthcoming.
“Utilizing List Exchange and Non-directed Donation through
"Chain" Paired Kidney Donations” (with Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, Francis L. Delmonico and Susan L.
Saidman) American Journal of
Transplantation (November, 2006) 6: 2694–2705.
“Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation By Matching for Two
and Three Way Exchanges” (with Susan Saidman, Alvin E. Roth,
Tayfun Sönmez, and Francis L. Delmonico) Transplantation
(March, 2006) 81: 773–782.
Working Papers
The working papers are continuously being updated, so revisit for updates. Any comments are welcome.
“A Theory of House Allocation and Exchange Mechanisms”
(with Marek Pycia)
“Kidney Exchange with Good Samaritan Donors: A
Characterization” (with Tayfun Sönmez)
“Ideology and Existence of 50%-Majority Equilibria in
Multidimensional Spatial Voting Models” (with Herve Cres)
“Course Bidding at Business Schools” (with Tayfun
Sönmez)
Older version of the paper
Grants
NSF Grant: “Collaborative
Research: Kidney Exchange” No: SES #0616689 (as Principal Investigator)
(2006-2008) (grant amount: $69,870)
‘Distinguished Young Scholar Award (GEBIP)’ by Turkish Academy of Sciences
(TÜBA) (2005) (grant amount - net of university costs: $23,000)
NSF Grant: “EHP:
Market Culture, Performance, and the Timing of Transactions” No: SES
#0338619 (as Co-Principal Investigator) (2004-2008) (grant amount: $323,338
including two other PIs)
Awards
‘Research Promotion Award’ by Prof. Mustafa Parlar Foundation at Middle
East Technical University (ODTÜ) (2005)
‘Promotion Award in Social Sciences’ by Turkish
Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) (2004)
‘Best Graduate Student Paper Award on Computational
Economics’ by Society for Computational
Economics (1999)
Conferences
SED 2008 5th
Conference on Economic Design - Announcement and
Web-page