Onur Kesten

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Assistant Professor of Economics

Teaching and Research Interests:

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

Useful Links:

• Vita

Published Papers: 

• Why Do Popular Mechanisms Lack Efficiency in Random Environments?
  Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming.
  
  
• 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: 

• A Mechanism Design Approach to a Common Distributional Problem of Centrally Administered Organizations
  March, 2008.
  (With: A. Yazici)
  
  
• On Two Kinds of Manipulation for School Choice Problems
  March, 2008.
  
  
• On-Campus Housing: Theory vs. Experiment
  March, 2008.
  (With: P. Guillen)
  
  
• An Alternative Mechanism Design Approach to School Choice in the United States
  March, 2008.
  
  
• 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 (47-818)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2008, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  
  
• Principles of Economics with Calculus (73-150)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2008, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2008, Fall (Section: B)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: B)