Hi, I am a senior lecturer in economics at Queen's University Belfast, doing research on market design.
I have published in Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Economics Letters and Mathematical Social Sciences. My research has been covered by The Economist, the Financial Times, the MIT Technology Review, BBC's Thinking Allowed and Forbes.
I obtained my PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2017 under the supervision of Hervé Moulin.
I am/have been on the program committee for the 2023, 2024 & 2025 Conference on Economics and Computation, the 2022 & 2024 Matching in Practice Workshop, and the 2024 Royal Economic Society Conference.
I am co-chairing the Irish Network on Economic Theory. We aim to regularly organize workshops and special sessions at the IEA congress. Get in touch if you want to join!
Publications
1. School choice with independent versus consolidated districts,
Games and Economic Behavior (2024) with T. Klein and R. Aue,
2. The cost of strategy-proofness in school choice,
Games and Economic Behavior (2023) with T. Klein,
extended abstract in the Matching under Preferences Workshop.
3. Fair cake-cutting in practice,
Games and Economic Behavior (2022) with M. Kyropoulou and E. Segal-Halevi,
extended abstract in the Conference on Economics and Computation.
4. Obvious manipulations in cake-cutting,
Social Choice and Welfare (2022) with E. Segal-Halevi.
5. On the integration of Shapley-Scarf housing markets,
Journal of Mathematical Economics (2022) with K. Manocha and R. Kumar,
extended abstract in the Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory.
6. Efficiency and fairness in cake-cutting with single-peaked preferences,
Economics Letters (2020) with B. Bhardwaj and R. Kumar
7. Multi-unit assignment under dichotomous preferences,
Mathematical Social Sciences (2020).
8. The losses from integration in matching markets can be large,
Economics Letters (2019)
9. Social integration in two-sided matching markets,
Journal of Mathematical Economics (2018)
Working Papers
1. Unimprovable students and inequality in school choice, with G. Ziegler and P. Aribillaga
2. The limits of school choice with consent, with G. Ziegler
extended abstract in the Conference on Web and Internet Economics.
3. Social integration via online dating, with P. Hergovich.
Ongoing Projects
1. Appeals in school choice, with C. Cerrone and Y. Hermstrüwer
2. Experimental school choice with parents as subjects, with T. Klein and M. Freer
3. Strongly improvable students in school choice, with T. Knipe
Refereeing and Editorial Activities
Program Committee:
Conference on Economics and Computation (EC); 2023, 2024, 2025.
Matching under Preferences workshop (Match-UP); 2022, 2024.
Royal Economic Society Conference; 2024.
Irish Economic Society Conference; 2025.
Journals: Journal of Economic Theory, Management Science, AEJ Microeconomics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Economics Letters, International Journal of Game Theory, Economic Inquiry, Theory and Decision, Social Networks, Mathematical Social Sciences, Journal of Demographic Economics, Stochastic Systems.
Other Conferences: EC 2020, WINE 2018, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Games, Agents & Incentives Workshop.
PhD Students
Taylor Knipe, main advisor, 2024-today.
Conferences Organised
Irish economic theory workshop, Belfast 2024.
Awards and Grants
As PI:
ESRC Impact Acceleration (£24,400).
British Academy small grant (£10,000).
Seal of Excellence for Marie Curie fellowship (€162,806).
As co-PI:
Design and impact of admissions rules for schools, Leibniz Association (€330,000).
Improving school admissions for diversity, Leibniz Association (€340,000).
Internal Grants:
North America Research Mobility Fund.
QUB Faculty Research Initiatives Fund.
EssexLab Seedcorn Fund Grant.
Glasgow - Columbia Principal's Early Career Mobility Fund.
Awards:
Personal
Mexican and British, 35 years old.
Address: Office 02.021, Riddel Hall Block 3, 185 Stranmillis Rd, Belfast BT9 5EE
My football record at the Austrian Football Association website 😬