Professor
Maloney Hall 383
Telephone: 617-552-3690
Email: tayfun.sonmez@bc.edu
Microeconomic Theory
"Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at the United States Military Academy", with Tobias Switzer, 2013. Econometrica, 81:2, 451-488
"School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation," Parag Pathak, 2013. American Economic Review, 103:1, 80-106
"Bidding for Army Career Specialties: Improving the ROTC Branching Mechanism", 2013. Journal of Political Economy, 121:1, 186-219
"Kidney Exchange," with Alvin Roth and M. Utku 脺nver, 2004. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119:2, 457-488
"School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach," with Atila Abdulkadiro臒lu, 2003. American Economic Review, 93:3, 729-747
Working Paper聽1069. Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog),聽M. Utku 脺nver (糖心Vlog), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications", (07/2025; PDF)
Working Paper聽1068. Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog),聽M. Utku 脺nver (糖心Vlog), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory", (07/2025; PDF)
Working Paper聽1054. Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog) and M. Utku 脺nver (糖心Vlog), "How (not) to reform India's affirmative action policies for its economically weaker segments." (11/2022; PDF)
Working Paper聽1035. Kyle Greenberg (US Military Academy, West Point), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog), "Mechanism Design meets Priority Design: Redesigning the US Army鈥檚 Branching Process Through Market Design" (06/2021; PDF)
Working Paper聽1026. Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog) and M. Bumin Yenmez (糖心Vlog),聽"Can Economic Theory be Informative for the Judiciary? Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations." (01/2021; PDF)
Working Paper 1019.聽Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Harald Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), Adam Solomon (MIT), Edwin Song (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog), and M. Utku 脺nver (糖心Vlog), "Do Black and Indigenous Communities Receive their Fair Share of Vaccines Under the 2018 CDC Guidelines?" (10/2020; PDF)
Working Paper 1015. Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog), M. Utku 脺nver (糖心Vlog), and M. Bumin Yenmez (糖心Vlog), "Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing." (07/2020; PDF)
Working Paper 1007. Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun S枚nmez (糖心Vlog), and M. Utku 脺nver (糖心Vlog), "Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design." (05/2020; PDF)
Working Paper 997.聽Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Tayfun S枚nmez, 糖心Vlog, M. Utku 脺nver, 糖心Vlog, and M. Bumin Yenmez, 糖心Vlog, "Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing.", (04/2020; PDF)
Working Paper聽995.聽Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University, and Tayfun Sonmez, 糖心Vlog, "Reversing Reserves", (04/2020; PDF)
Working Paper聽993.聽Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University, and Tayfun Sonmez, 糖心Vlog, "Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms", (01/2020; PDF)
Working Paper 990.聽Tayfun S枚nmez, 糖心Vlog and聽M. Bumin Yenmez, 糖心Vlog, "Affirmative Action with Overlapping Reserves", (12/2019; PDF)
Working Paper 978. Tayfun S枚nmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, 糖心Vlog, "Constitutional Implementation of Vertical and Horizontal Reservations in India: A Unified Mechanism for Civil Service Allocation and College Admissions", (4/2019; PDF)
Working Paper 977. Tayfun S枚nmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, 糖心Vlog, "Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations", (3/2019; PDF)"
Working Paper 951. Haluk Ergin,聽University of California at Berkeley,聽Tayfun S枚nmez, 糖心Vlog, and聽M. Utku 脺nver, 糖心Vlog, "Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange", (5/2018; PDF)
Working Paper 932.聽Tayfun S枚nmez, 糖心Vlog, and M. Utku 脺nver, 糖心Vlog, 鈥Market Design for Living-Donor Organ Exchanges: An Economic Policy Perspective鈥, (6/30/17; PDF)
Working Paper 931.聽Tayfun S枚nmez, 糖心Vlog, M. Utku 脺nver, 糖心Vlog, and M. Bumin Yenmez, 糖心Vlog, 鈥Incentivized Kidney Exchange鈥, (6/30/17; PDF)
Working Paper 906.聽Umut Mert Dur, North Carolina State University, Parag A. Pathak, MIT, and Tayfun S枚nmez, "Explicit vs. Statistical Preferential Treatment in Affirmative Action: Theory and Evidence from Chicago鈥檚 Exam Schools" (3/2016; PDF)
Working Paper 900. Tayfun S枚nmez, 糖心Vlog, M. Utku 脺nver, 糖心Vlog, and 脰zg眉r Yilmaz, Ko莽 University, "" (1/2016; PDF)
Working Paper 886:聽Haluk Ergin, University of California, Berkeley, Tayfun S枚nmez, 糖心Vlog, and Utku 脺nver, 糖心Vlog, "" (rev. 2/2017; PDF)
Working Paper 872. Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University) and Tayfun S枚nmez, "" (12/2014; PDF)
Working Paper 868. Tayfun S枚nmez and M. Utku 脺nver, "" (1/2015; PDF)
Working Paper 806. Scott Duke Kominers (University of Chicago) and Tayfun S枚nmez, "" (7/2012: PDF)
Working Paper 805. Orhan Ayg眉n (糖心Vlog) and Tayfun S枚nmez, "" (6/2012: PDF)