Freshman class

Fair trade

Utku Unver, associate professor of economics

PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Representative publication: "Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility Based Preferences" (with Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez), American Economic Review, June 2007

My research centers on the design and analysis of "matching markets," those transactions in which assets or services are conveyed from one party to another without money as a medium of exchange. Transplant organs, academic courses, and dormitory rooms, for example, cannot be sold because of institutional, legal, or ethical reasons. I am working to understand the forces driving these transactions and to design more efficient models.