Onur Kesten

PHONE

412-268-9823

OFFICE

POS - Posner Hall - Room 249

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Economics

EDUCATION

University of Rochester - Ph D - 2005
University of Rochester - MA - 2003
Bilkent University - BS - 2000

PUBLICATIONS

• Equitable top trading cycles mechanisms: Theory and experiments

(author(s): Rustamdjan Hakimov, Onur Kesten) International Economic Review

• College and High School Admissions Reforms in China: A Theoretical Analysis

(author(s): Yan Chen, Onur Kesten) Journal of Political Economy 125(1), 2017; 99-139

• On Characterizations of the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism Involving Incentive and Invariance Properties

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Morimitsu Kurino, Utku Unver) Mathematical Social Sciences

• Efficient Lottery Design

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Morimitsu Kurino, Alex Nesterov) Social Choice and Welfare

• The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process

(author(s): Vince Slaugh, Mustafa Akan, Onur Kesten, Utku Unver) Interfaces 46(2), 2016

• An Equilibrium Analysis of the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism

(author(s): O. Ekici, Onur Kesten) International Journal of Game Theory

• From Boston to Shanghai to Gale-Shapley: A study on a family of school choice mechanisms (short version)

(author(s): Y. Chen, Onur Kesten) Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering series

• A Theory of School-choice Lotteries

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Utku Unver) Theoretical Economics

• Two Axiomatic Approaches to the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism

(author(s): Tadashi Hashimato, Daisuke Hirata, Onur Kesten, Morimitsu Kurino, Utku Unver) Theoretical Economics 9, 2014; 253-277

• Matching Markets with Mixed Ownership: The Case for A Real-life Assignment Mechanism

(author(s): P. Guillen, Onur Kesten) International Economic Review 53, 2012; 1027-1046

• On two kinds of manipulation for school choice problems

Economic Theory 51, 2012; 677-693

• The Pareto dominant strategy-proof and equitable rule for problems with indivisible goods

(author(s): Onur Kesten, A. Yazici) Economic Theory 50, 2012; 463-488

• Lottery mechanism design for school choice

(author(s): Onur Kesten, U. Unver) Proceedings of the Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory: Conference on Future Directions, 2010

• School choice with consent

Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(3), 2010; 1297-1348

• Attracting Whom? - Managing User-Generated-Content Communities for Monetization

(author(s): Onur Kesten, L. Ma, T. Mukhopadhya) Proceedings of International Conference in Information Systems, 2009

• Coalitional strategy-proofness and resource monotonicity for house allocation problems

International Journal of Game Theory 38, 2009; 17-21

• Why do popular mechanisms lack efficiency in random environments?

Journal of Economic Theory 144, 2009; 2209-2226

• More on the uniform rule: Characterizations without Pareto optimality

Mathematical Social Sciences 51, 2006; 192-200

• On two competing mechanisms for priority based allocation problems

Journal of Economic Theory 127, 2006; 155-171

WORKING PAPERS

• Parallel versus Sequential School Admissions: A Tale of Two Countries

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Umut Dur, Sinan Ertemel, Ola Andersson, Tommy Andersson)

• Sequential School Choice: Theory and Evidence from the Field and Lab

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Umut Dur, Robert Hammond, Thayer Morrill)

• College and High School Admissions Reforms in China: An Experimental Analysis

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Yan Chen) Games and Economic Behavior

• Improving Child Welfare Outcomes via Market Design
  More Fair By Design: Economic Design Responses To Inequality

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Mustafa Akan) Oxford University Press

• A large scale school choice experiment

(author(s): Y. Chen, M. Jiang, Onur Kesten, S. Robin, M. Zhu) Games and Economic Behavior

• Do outside options matter in school choice? A new perspective on the welfare incentives trade-off

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Morimitsu Kurino) Games and Economic Behavior

• A new solution to probabilistic stability: The compromise mechanism

• Child adoption: A theory of dynamic matching

(author(s): Mustafa Akan, Onur Kesten, V. Slaugh, U. Unver)

• College admissions in China under incomplete information

(author(s): Y. Chen, M. Jiang, Onur Kesten)

• Drawbacks of Multi-step assignment: The case of the appeal process in NYC High School Match

(author(s): Onur Kesten, U. Dur)

• Empirical and Experimental evaluation of the Chinese College admissions Reforms

(author(s): Y. Chen, M. Jiang, Onur Kesten)

• Improving the efficiency of the NBA draft lottery

(author(s): O. Ekici, Onur Kesten)

• Redesigning the MBA consortium

(author(s): Onur Kesten, G. Pala)

• School choice from a cost perspective

(author(s): Onur Kesten, S. Ozyurt)

• The Reassignment Problem

(author(s): Onur Kesten, M. Kurino)

• Curse of Stability: Improving the Appeals Round in the NYC High School Match

(author(s): Onur Kesten, Umut Dur)

• Increasing diversity in the Erasmus Exchange program

(author(s): Umut Dur, Onur Kesten, Utku Unver)

• Sequential Assignment Problems and Two Applications

AEJ: Micro

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Tepper - Lave-Weil Prize (2013)
• Carnegie Mellon University - BP Junior Faculty Chair Award (2008)
• Carnegie Mellon University - Excellence in the Classroom, Richard Cyert Teaching Award (2008)
• Carnegie Mellon University - Faculty Giving Chair Award (2006)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Lave-Weil Prize Review, Committee Member (2016 - 2016)
• Undergraduate Admissions Review Committee, Committee Member (2015 - 2015)
• Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee, Committee Chair (2013 - 2014)
• Undergraduate Business Curriculum Review, Committee Member (2013 - 2014)
• Economics Recruiting, Committee Chair (2013 - 2014)
• Undergraduate BA Curriculum Review Committee, Committee Member (2012 - 2013)
• Undergraduate Econ Curriculum Review Committee, Committee Member (2012 - 2013)
• Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee, Committee Member, Co-Chair (2009 - 2010)
• Economics Seminar Series, Workshop Organizer (2009 - 2010)
• FACULTY RECRUITMENT/ECONOMICS (2007 - 2008)
• Economics Seminar Series, Co-Organizer (2007 - 2008)
• Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee, Committee Member, Co-Chair (2007 - 2008)
• Chairperson, TEPPER FACULTY RECRUITMENT/ECON (2006 - 2007)
• Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee, Co-Chair (2006 - 2007)
• FACULTY/ASSISTANT/NOT ASSIGNED TO ANY (2005 - 2006)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Economics (January 2017 -)
• Associate Editor, Mathematical Social Sciences (October 2013 -)
• Committee Member, Review of Economic Design, Organization Committee (July 2013 -)
• Program Organizer, Society of Advancement of Economic Theory, Session organizer (July 2013 -)
• Treasurer, Society of Economic Design (June 2011 -)
• Board Member, Society of Economic Design (June 2008 -)
• Committee Member, Match-Up , Organizing Committee (October 2016 - December 2016)
• Workshop Organizer, Economics and Business Workshop (April 2014)
• Session Chair, 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (March 2014)
• Session Chair, Review of Economic Design Conference (July 2013)
• Session Chair, SAET (July 2013)
• Session Chair, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (July 2013)
• Session Chair, Stony Brook Game Theory Conference (July 2011)
• Session Chair, EBES Conference (June 2011)
• Session Chair, Society of Economic Design (June 2008)
• Session Chair, Review of Economic Design Conference (July 2006)
• Session Chair, Society of Social Choice and Welfare Conference (July 2006)

COURSES TAUGHT

• MARKET DESIGN (73315) 2017 Section: A
  2015 Section: W

• Game Theory and Applications (47817) 2017 Mini 3 Section: A

• Princ Of Economics (73100) 2016 Section: 1, 2

• Economics of Contracts (47818) 2016 Mini 1 Section: A
  2009 Mini 2 Section: A
  2008 Mini 2 Section: A
  2007 Mini 1 Section: A
  2006 Mini 1 Section: A

• Game Theory Econ (73347) 2016 Section: W

• Intermedt Micrcomcs (73230) 2016 Section: W

• INTERMEDT MICRCOMCS (73230) 2015 Section: W

• PRINC OF ECONOMICS (73100) 2014 Section: 1, 2
  2013 Section: 1, 2

• Principles of Economics (very large) (73100) 2012 Section: A, B
  2011 Section: A, B

• Microeconomics (73150) 2009 Section: A, B
  2008 Section: A, B
  2007 Section: A, B

• Economic Theory (73251) 2006 Section: A, B