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Tayfun Sönmez

Tayfun Sönmez

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
43
Citations
14399
World Ranking
1917
National Ranking
1119

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Tayfun Sönmez is affiliated with Boston College in the United States. Their work spans across multiple fields of study, notably Medicine and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these areas, they have contributed substantially to subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Emergency Medical Services, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research covers key topics including Game Theory and Voting Systems, Healthcare Policy and Management, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Disaster Response and Management, Organ Donation and Transplantation, Emergency and Acute Care Studies, and Defense, Military, and Policy Studies.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Explicit vs. statistical targeting in affirmative action: Theory and evidence from Chicago's exam schools (2020, Journal of Economic Theory)
  • 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)

Tayfun Sönmez frequently publishes in venues including the SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), CHEST Journal, BMJ, and American Economic Review.

Frequent collaborators of Sönmez include Parag A. Pathak, M. Utku Ünver, M. Bumin Yenmez, Kyle Greenberg, and Harald Schmidt.

In 2003, Tayfun Sönmez was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Best Publications

  • School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach

    Atila Abdulkadiroglu;Tayfun Sönmez

  • A Tale of Two Mechanisms: Student Placement

    Michel Balinski;Tayfun Sönmez

  • The Boston Public School Match

    Atila Abdulkadiroğlu;Parag A. Pathak;Alvin E. Roth;Tayfun Sönmez

  • RANDOM SERIAL DICTATORSHIP AND THE CORE FROM RANDOM ENDOWMENTS IN HOUSE ALLOCATION PROBLEMS

    Atila Abdulkadiroglu;Tayfun Sonmez

  • Pairwise kidney exchange

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

  • House Allocation with Existing Tenants

    Atila Abdulkadiroğlu;Tayfun Sönmez;Tayfun Sönmez

  • Core in a Simple Coalition Formation Game

    Suryapratim Banerjee;Hideo Konishi;Tayfun Sönmez

  • 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

  • School choice: an experimental study

    Yan Chen;Tayfun Sönmez

  • Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism

    Parag A. Pathak;Tayfun Sönmez

  • Games of school choice under the Boston mechanism

    Haluk Ergin;Tayfun Sönmez

  • School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by their Vulnerability to Manipulation

    Parag A. Pathak;Tayfun Sonmez

  • 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

  • Matching With (Branch‐of‐Choice) Contracts at the United States Military Academy

    Tayfun Sonmez;Tobias B. Switzer

  • 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

  • Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism

    Atila Abdulkadiroglu;Parag A. Pathak;Alvin E. Roth;Tayfun Sönmez

  • Strategy‐proofness and Essentially Single‐valued Cores

    Tayfun Sönmez

  • Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism: Strategy-proofness as Equal Access

    Atila Abdulkadiroùglu;Parag A. Pathak;Alvin E. Roth;Tayfun Sonmez

  • Matching with Contracts: Comment

    Orhan Aygün;Tayfun Sönmez

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