Research interests

Matching theory, market design, social choice theory, coalition formation, cooperative game theory

Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University, Canada, since 2005

Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, University of Notre Dame, USA, 2001-2005

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 1999-2001

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Koç University, Turkey, 1995-1999

Education

PhD in Social Sciences, CalTech, 1991-1995

Diploma in Economics, Karl Marx University of Economics, Hungary, 1983-1989

Selected publications

"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" with Nickesha Ayoade, Games and Economic Behavior, (2023) 137: 317-341.

“Exchange in a General Market with Indivisible Goods,” Journal of Economic Theory (2007) 132: 208-235.

“Strategyproof Assignment by Hierarchical Exchange,” Econometrica (2000) 68: 1403-1433.

PhD Students

Pooya Ghasvareh: "Fairness Comparisons of Matching Rules," 2019

Nickesha Ayoade: "Theoretical Studies on the Design of School Choice Mechanisms," 2020

Dilek Sayedahmed: "Refugee Settlement and Other Matching Problems with Priority Classes and Reserves: A Market Design Perspective" 2021

Asefeh Salarinezhad: "Static and Dynamic Theoretical Studies on Improving Matching Design" 2021

Rouzbeh Ghouchani (co-supervisor: Dipjyoti Majumdar) : "Studies in Mechanism Design" 2021

Muntasir Chaudhury - ongoing

Manuel Lepage Lévesque (co-supervisor: Ming Li) - ongoing

Yuxing Liang (co-supervisor: Xintong Han) - ongoing

Israa Hashem - ongoing

Shahidul Islam - ongoing

Other

Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory, 2005-2010

Associate Editor, Social Choice and Welfare, since 2008