Roy-ADRES Seminar with Utku ÜNVER (Boston College)

Utku Ünver is Professor of Economics at Boston College. He is a Board Member of the Society for Economic Design, which he presided from 2008 to 2015. Among his current editorial duties, he is Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions in Economics and Computation, an Associate/Advisory Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design.

His research interests are primarily in microeconomic theory on market design, matching markets, and the allocation/exchange of discrete resources. Through his research in market design, he also has an active interest in improving or designing real-life institutions. Some areas he has pioneered, and for which he has garnered international and national recognition, are the theory, design, and real-life implementation of kidney-paired exchange systems, liver-paired exchange systems, reserve systems in scarce medical resource allocation, and recommendation systems in child adoption. 

Utku Ünver's website

He will present a paper, joint with Xiang Han Shanghai and Onur Kesten, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:

Blood Allocation with Replacement Donors: Theory and Application (read paper)

The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Lorenzo Maria STANCA (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin) on May 12th.