Szilvia Pápai, PhD

Honors

Advisory Board Member, Society for Economic Design (since 2025)

Fellow of the Hungarian Society of Economics (since 2023)

Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory (2005-2010)

Editorial Positions

Advisory/Associate Editor:

•      Games and Economic Behavior (2023-2026)
•      Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design (since 2023)
•      Social Choice and Welfare (since 2008)

Research interests

Matching Theory, Axiomatic Resource Allocation, Market Design, Coalition Formation, Social Choice Theory

Education

PhD: Caltech

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

"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.

Keynote Lectures

Recent Research Talks

• Pooya Ghasvareh (2019) - Lead Data Scientist, Health Canada, Drug and Medical Device Shortage Directorate
• Nickesha Ayoade  (2020) - Research Analyst, Professional Engineers Ontario
• Dilek Sayedahmed (2021) - Global Lead, Engagement & Partnerships – Research & Incubations, Groupe Équité et Inclusion / Equity & Inclusion Consultancy (EIC), Paris, France, and Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, NYU Paris
• Asefeh Salarinezhad (2021) - Assistant Professor (LTA), Department of Economics, Concordia University
  
• Rouzbeh Ghouchani (2021, co-supervised with Dipjyoti Majumdar) - Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Studies, University Canada West (UCW)
• Muntasir Chaudhury (2023) - Associate Professor, Department of Economics, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Md. Shahidul Islam (2026) - Assistant Professor of Economics, UPEI
• Yuxing Liang (co-supervised with Xintong Han) - ongoing
• Israa Hashem (co-supervised with Gabrielle Vasey) - ongoing
• Yebang Liu (co-supervised with Huan Xie) - ongoing

ECON 632: Market Design (offered in Winter 2027)
ECON 614: Game Theory
ECON 440/540: Market Design (offered in Winter 2027)
ECON 464/564: Game Theory

• 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
• Social Choice and Welfare conference, Tokyo (Japan), June 2026: program committee member
• SAET conference, Rio de Janeiro, July 2026: organizer of (almost) one session