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M. Utku Ünver
@muunver.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, Boston College | Matching Markets, Market Design, Mechanism Design | running, hiking, board games, phil. of science | https://sites.bc.edu/utku-unver

https://liverpairedexchange.bc.edu/en
https://www.covid19reservesystem.org
The BBS-Liver Exchange System today completed its 300th transplant in Malatya, Türkiye, with 102 of them completed this year. Breakdowns of all transplants, categorized by exchange sizes and the type of pairs involved, are provided below. When we launched this program in 2022.
September 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Prof Sezai Yılmaz's interview in Turkey related to the BBS-liver paired exchange program that Tayfun Sönmez and I founded with him and their other liver transplant achievements in Malatya, Turkey by their amazing team (use google translate)

ankahaber.net/haber/detay/...
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I am excited to share the new version of our paper "Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment:
An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools" with @combeju.bsky.social, Umut Dur, Olivier Tercieux, and @camilleterrier.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Congratulations go to Inonu University Transplant Institute for completing their 150th liver paired exchange transplant with the (third-ever) 6-way exchange conducted today; the following write-up highlights some of the recent developments: https://t.co/k5MfabYDV4
November 26, 2024 at 9:52 PM
... NEPKE started running on my laptop. Now 1/5 Living donor transplants come from kidney exchange in the US; similar paradigms are used all over the world. See Tayfun's book and our recent chapter for more details: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4796721
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Abstract of "Market Design for Social Justice: A Case Study on a Constitutional Crisis in India" with Tayfun Sönmez
November 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM
November 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM