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Professor of Economics, Boston College | Matching Markets, Market Design, Mechanism Design | running, hiking, board games, phil. of science | https://sites.bc.edu/utku-unver https://liverpairedexchange.bc.edu/en https://www.covid19reservesystem.org
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Thank you, Al, for promoting our collaborators' work. You can more learn about the background of how we initiated the Liver Paired Exchange Program in Malatya in Section 12.3 of the manuscript of @tayfunsonmez.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2401.003...

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"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people.” I’ve had my differences with Justin Trudeau, for sure, but he rose to the occasion here.

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NBER Market Design Working Group Report, talking about many exciting recent papers in all areas of market design/design of economic mechanisms. www.nber.org/reporter/202...

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I am excited to share the new version of our paper "Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools" with @combeju.bsky.social, Umut Dur, Olivier Tercieux, and @camilleterrier.bsky.social

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I encourage you all to submit a paper to the 14th Conference on Economic Design. The conference is organized by Albin Erlanson at the University of Essex, June 23rd-25th, 2025. Paper submission deadline is 1st February, 2025. Hope to see many of you there 🙂 #econsky @vmdseminar.bsky.social

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On the amazing downfall of Alzheimer's research by widespread manipulations and the crooked incentive structure in science: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

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I am proud to announce that the BBS Liver Exchange System that I co-founded (along with Tayfun Sönmez and Sezai Yilmaz) just facilitated its 201st transplant. I am very proud to be helping such a brilliant and dedicated bunch of doctors and professionals. caprazkaracigernakli.inonu.edu.tr/en

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This is great news! Data Colada is one of the greatest services to science in the modern age. https://twitter.com/jpsimmon/status/1833976010192421244

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Congratulations go to Inonu University Transplant Institute for completing their 150th liver paired exchange transplant with the (third-ever) 6-way exchange conducted today; the following write-up highlights some of the recent developments: https://t.co/k5MfabYDV4

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A very untimely loss in any dimension :( https://twitter.com/fkojima79/status/1808819367637045468

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Indeed... https://twitter.com/tyfn_sonmez/status/1792629443116020169

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I cannot believe this was 20 years ago. While visiting HBS as an asst prof thanks to Al Roth's invitation, Al mentioned hearing about ad hoc exchanges happening. @tyfn_sonmez and I had a paper on a related model (based on Tayfun's paper w A. Abdulkadiroglu.). https://t.co/CL7v8Oeg5c

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I am excited to share two matching survey chapters I co-wrote with Tayfun Sönmez (@tyfn_sonmez) for the "Handbook of the Economics of Matchings (Vol.1)" edited by Yeon-Koo Che, Pierre-Andre´ Chiappori and Bernard Salanie´...

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Today marks the 100th exchange transplant with the 5th 4-way exchange conducted at BBS Liver Exchange System at Inonu University Liver Transplant Institute in Malatya Turkey. I am proud to be helping these dedicated surgeons and scientists in their endeavor. https://t.co/ojPugkD8LK

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Malatya, ‘çapraz karaciğer nakli’nin dünya başkenti oluyor https://www.ekonomim.com/kose-yazisi/malatya-capraz-karaciger-naklinin-dunya-baskenti-oluyor/727073 @profsezaiyilmaz @tyfn_sonmez @drvolkanince @akbulutsami @ProfDrAKizilay

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I am extremely proud of supporting this incredible transplant team. The world's first 6-way liver exchange was carried out in Malatya this week in addition to conducting all two 5-way exchanges, all four 4-way exchanges, and 9 of the 11 3-way exchanges in the world. https://t.co/VJVaQosq1t

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Happy new year to all. I hope it brings (starts to bring) health, peace, prosperity to all inhabitants of earth and the planet itself. Herkese iyi yıllar. Umarım gezegenimize ve her yaşayanına sağlık, barış ve refah getirir (getirmeye başlar).

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Obviously this tweet is telling the opposite of what the paper and the abstract is saying, but here it goes. "Design economists as *not consultants but outside critics* helped shape the design paradigm." https://twitter.com/nberpubs/status/1735434737320186238

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I would not write this lightly: Pietro is a very strong candidate and a very gifted microtheorist. I am on his committee. I recommend him to ANY department. He is one of the best students I have ever interacted with, and that list includes many top-notch theorists of our time. https://t.co/tKmx...

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İnönü Üniversitesi, Banu Bedestenci Sönmez Karaciğer Çapraz Nakil Sistemi'nin yeni internet sitesi: https://t.co/OFsjLMvvvM The website of the Inonu University BBS Liver Exchange System is live (in English): https://t.co/ixrwuDUEnb @tyfn_sonmez @profsezaiyilmaz

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Today was the fourth 4-way exchange (third in the last 3 months) conducted by the BBS Liver Paired Exchange Program at Malatya. The number of exchange transplants in the last 3 months is 47 (inc. world's first two 5-ways). Congrats! @tyfn_sonmez @ProfDrAKizilay @profsezaiyilmaz https://t.co/yxl...

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Today is the 100th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic. Kemal Ataturk and co-founders gave hope of a free, better, modern future for a war-battered people. Today, especially Turkish women are as free and educated thanks to them. I wish a better future for all people.

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Today was another historic day in Malatya conducting the first ever 5-way liver paired exchange. Additionally, since August 2023 our system found and the Institute conducted 2 4-way exchanges, 4 3-way exchanges, and 5 2-way exchanges altıgether transplanting to 35 patients. https://t.co/SAEh4l6ggB

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