Onur Kesten

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Associate Professor of Economics

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Microeconomic theory, mechanism design, matching markets, and social choice.

Useful Links:

• Vita

Published Papers: 

• Two Axiomatic Approaches to the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism
  Theoretical Economics, Forthcoming.
  
  
• On Two Kinds of Manipulation for School Choice Problems
  Economic Theory 51(3), 2012; 677-693.
  
  
• The Pareto Dominant Strategy-Proof and Fair Rule for Problems with Indivisible Goods
  Economic Theory 50(2), 2012; 463-488.
  (with: Ayse Yazici)
  
  
• Matching Markets with Mixed Ownership: The Case for a Real-life Mechanism
  International Economic Review 53(3), 2012; 1027-1046.
  (with: P. Guillen)
  
  
• School Choice with Consent
  Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(3), August, 2010; 1297-1348.
  
  
• Why Do Popular Mechanisms Lack Efficiency in Random Environments?
  Journal of Economic Theory 144, 2009; 2209-2226.
  
  
• Coalitional Strategy-Proofness and Resource Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems
  International Journal of Game Theory 38, 2009; 17-22.
  
  
• 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: 

• From Boston to Chinese Parallel to Deferred Acceptance: Theory and Experiments on a Family of School Choice Mechanisms
  January, 2013.
  (with: Yan Chen)
  
  
• A Theory of School-Choice Lotteries
  January, 2013.
  (with: Utku Unver)
  
  
• A New Principle for Indivisible Good Allocation Problems
  July, 2007.
  
  
• A New Solution to Probabilistic Stability: The Compromise Mechanism
  July, 2007.
  
  
• An Advice to the Organizers of Entry-Level Labor Markets in the United Kingdom
  July, 2005.
  
  

Awards:

• BP Junior Faculty Chair - 2009-10
• Excellence in the Classroom Award, B.S. Economics Program - 2009
• Faculty Giving Chair, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon - 2007-08

Courses Taught:

• Economics of Contracts (47818)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2009, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: A)

• Principles of Economics (73100)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2013, Spring (Section: 1)
  • 2013, Spring (Section: 2)
  • 2012, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2012, Spring (Section: B)
  • 2011, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2011, Spring (Section: B)

• Microeconomics (73150)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2009, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2009, Fall (Section: B)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: B)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: B)