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M. Utku Ünver

M. Utku Ünver

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
33
Citations
6340
World Ranking
3230
National Ranking
1752

Overview

M. Utku Ünver is affiliated with Boston College in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. The scientist's work also engages deeply with several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, Emergency Medical Services, and Infectious Diseases.

They have contributed to a range of research topics, which include:

  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Organ Donation and Transplantation
  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Healthcare Policy and Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by M. Utku Ünver are:

  • Covid-19: how to prioritize worse-off populations in allocating safe and effective vaccines, 2020, BMJ
  • Incentivized Kidney Exchange, 2020, American Economic Review
  • Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange, 2020, Econometrica
  • Categorized Priority Systems, 2020, CHEST Journal
  • A Novel Approach to Equitable Distribution of Scarce Therapeutics, 2021, CHEST Journal

The scientist plays an active role in collaborative research, frequently working alongside colleagues such as Tayfun Sönmez, Parag A. Pathak, Marek Pycia, Harald Schmidt, and Govind Persad. These co-authorships reflect a consistent interdisciplinary collaboration across economics, medicine, and public health areas.

M. Utku Ünver has published extensively in reputable venues, with a significant number of publications appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • CHEST Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • BMJ
  • American Journal of Transplantation

In addition to journal articles, M. Utku Ünver has also contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming book titled Current Approaches in Applied Statistics II scheduled for 2025 by Özgür Yayınları eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Pairwise kidney exchange

    Alvin E. Roth;Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver

  • Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences

    Alvin E. Roth;Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver

  • Matching, Allocation, and Exchange of Discrete Resources

    Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver

  • A Nonsimultaneous, Extended, Altruistic-Donor Chain

    Michael Kenneth Rees;Jonathan E. Kopke;Ronald P. Pelletier;Dorry L. Segev

  • A kidney exchange clearinghouse in New England

    Alvin E Roth;Tayfun Sönmez;Tayfun Sönmez;M Utku Ünver

  • Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation by Matching for Two and Three Way Exchanges

    Susan L. Saidman;Alvin Roth;Tayfun Sönmez;Utku Unver

  • Dynamic Kidney Exchange

    M. Utku Ünver

  • Course Bidding at Business Schools

    Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver

  • Utilizing List Exchange and Nondirected Donation through ‘Chain’ Paired Kidney Donations

    A. E. Roth;T. Sönmez;M. U. Ünver;F. L. Delmonico

  • Incentive compatible allocation and exchange of discrete resources

    Marek Pycia;M. Utku Ünver

  • A theory of school-choice lotteries

    Onur Kesten;M. Utku Ünver

  • Two axiomatic approaches to the probabilistic serial mechanism

    Tadashi Hashimoto;Daisuke Hirata;Onur Kesten;Morimitsu Kurino

  • Credible group stability in many-to-many matching problems☆

    Hideo Konishi;M. Utku Ünver

  • The “Boston” school-choice mechanism: an axiomatic approach

    Fuhito Kojima;M. Utku Ünver

  • Asset price bubbles and crashes with near-zero-intelligence traders

    John Duffy;M. Utku Ünver

  • The dynamics of law clerk matching: An experimental and computational investigation of proposals for reform of the market

    Ernan E. Haruvy;Alvin E Roth;M. Utku Unver

  • House allocation with existing tenants: an equivalence

    Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver

  • House allocation with existing tenants: A characterization ✩

    Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver

  • Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing

    Parag A. Pathak;Tayfun Sönmez;M. Utku Ünver;M. Bumin Yenmez

  • Unraveling yields inefficient matchings: evidence from post-season college football bowls

    Guillaume R. Fréchette;Alvin E. Roth;M. Utku Ünver

  • Random paths to pairwise stability in many-to-many matching problems: a study on market equilibration

    Fuhito Kojima;M. Utku Ünver

Frequent Co-Authors

Tayfun Sönmez
Tayfun Sönmez Boston College
Alvin E. Roth
Alvin E. Roth Stanford University
Ernan Haruvy
Ernan Haruvy McGill University
John Duffy
John Duffy University of California, Irvine
Muriel Niederle
Muriel Niederle Stanford University
Andrew J. Schaefer
Andrew J. Schaefer Rice University
Tuomas Sandholm
Tuomas Sandholm Carnegie Mellon University

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