Szilvia Pápai, PhD
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- CIREQ Researcher
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Supervised programs: Economics (MA), Economics (PhD)
Research areas: Matching Theory, Market Design, Game Theory
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Biography
Education
PhD: Caltech
Research interests
Matching Theory, Axiomatic Resource Allocation, Market Design, Coalition Formation, Social Choice Theory
Editorial Positions
Advisory/Associate Editor:
- Games and Economic Behavior
- Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design
- Social Choice and Welfare
Professional experience
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Finance, University of Notre Dame
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Koc University
Recent Research
"Strategyproof Maximum Matching with Dichotomus Agent Preferences" with Haris Aziz and Shahidul Islam (working paper)
"Affirmative Action Policies in School Choice: Immediate versus Deferred Acceptance" with Muntasir Chaudhury (working paper)
"Balanced Exchange in a Multi-Unit Shapley-Scarf Market" with Péter Biró and Flip Klijn (working paper)
"School Choice with Preference Rank Classes" with Nickesha Ayoade, Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 137: 317-341.
"Serial Rules in a Multi-Unit Shapley-Scarf Market" with Péter Biró and Flip Klijn, Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 136: 428-453.
"Preference Aggregation for Couples" with Rouzbeh Ghouchani, Social Choice and Welfare, 2022, 59: 889-923.
Recent Presentations
Keynote Lectures
Recent Research Talks
2nd UB workshop on Game Theory, University of Barcelona, November 2023
Kyushu University, Department of Informatics, November 2023
Kyoto University, KIER, November 2023
7th Spain-Japan Meeting on Economic Theory, Waseda University, October 2023
University of Tokyo, Market Design Center, October 2023 - four lectures on "Axiomatic Approaches to Affirmative Action and Preferential Treatment Policies in Matching Design"
Hitotsubashi University, October 2023
Recent Grants
SSHRC Insight Grant 2023-2026: "Segregation and Priority Treatment Policies in School Choice Design"
PhD Student Supervision
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Pooya Ghasvareh (2019) - Bio Statistician/Researcher, Health Canada
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Nickesha Ayoade (2020) - Research Analyst, Professional Engineers Ontario
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Dilek Sayedahmed (2021) - Senior Research Fellow, WISIR, University of Waterloo
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Asefeh Salarinezhad (2021) - Assistant Professor (LTA), Dept. of Economics, Concordia University
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Rouzbeh Ghouchani (2021, co-supervised with Dipjyoti Majumdar) - Assistant Professor, Economics, University Canada West
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Muntasir Chaudhury (2023) - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, East West University, Dhaka
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Manuel Lepage Lévesque (co-supervised with Ming Li) - ongoing
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Yuxing Liang (co-supervised with Xintong Han) - ongoing
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Md. Shahidul Islam - ongoing
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Israa Hashem (co-supervised with Gabrielle Vasey) - ongoing
Courses
ECON 695: Economic Design
ECON 614: Game Theory
ECON 440/540: Market Design
ECON 464/564: Game Theory
Recent Conference and Workshop Organization
- CRM thematic workshop on Agents Behavior in Combinatorial Game Theory, November 2021 (online): co-organizer
- Social Choice and Welfare conference, Mexico City, June 2022: program committee member
- SAET conference, Sydney (Australia), July 2022: organizer of two sessions
- SAET conference, Paris (France), July 2023: organizer of one session
- SAET conference, Santiago (Chile), January 2024: organizer of two sessions
- Social Choice and Welfare conference, Paris (France), July 2024: program committee member
- Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design, Budapest (Hungary), July 2024: program committee member, organizer of two sessions
- SAET conference, Ischia (Italy), July 2025: organizer of two sessions