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Afshin Nikzad
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Southern California
Google Scholar
I am an economic theorist with a focus on market design, mechanism design, and matching markets.
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Journal Papers
Optimal Allocation via Waitlists: Simplicity through Information Design
The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
with Itai Ashlagi and Faidra Monachou.
Efficiency and Equity in Dynamic Matching: Extreme Waitlist Policies
Management Science, forthcoming, with Philipp Strack.
On Rank Dominance of Tie-Breaking Rules
Theoretical Economics, 2023, with Maxwell Allman and Itai Ashlagi.
Matching in Dynamic Imbalanced Markets
The Review of Economic Studies, 2022,
with Itai Ashlagi, Philipp Strack.
Rank-optimal Assignments in Uniform Markets
Theoretical Economics, 2022
A short proof
by Jay Sethuraman based on a theorem of Aldous
Global Kidney Chains
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
with Mohammad Akbarpour, Michael Reese, Alvin Roth.
Persuading a Pessimist: Simplicity and Robustness
Games and Economic Behavior, 2021
Approximate Random Allocation Mechanisms
The Review of Economic Studies, 2020,
with Mohammad Akbarpour.
What Matters in Tie-Breaking Rules? How Competition Guides Design
Journal of Economic Theory, 2020,
with Itai Ashlagi.
Assigning more Students to Their Top Choices: A Comparison of Tiebreaking Rules
Games and Economic Behavior, 2019,
with Itai Ashlagi, Assaf Romm.
Budget Feasible Procurement Auctions
Operations Research, 2018,
with Nima Anari and Gagan Goel
Approximation Algorithms for Computing Maximin Share Allocations
ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2017
with Georgios Amanatidis, Evangelos Markakis, Amin Saberi
Working Papers
Multi-criteria Mechanisms: Constraints and Comparative Statics
Draft available upon request (coming soon)
Constrained Majorization: Applications in Mechanism Design
Working paper. Extended Abstract in EC 2022
Thickness and Competition in On-demand Service Platforms
Working paper
Financing Transplant Costs of the Poor: A Dynamic Model of Global Kidney Exchange
Afshin Nikzad, Mohammad Akbarpour, Michael Reese, Alvin Roth
Selected Conference Papers
Expressiveness, Cost, and Collectivism: How the Design of Preference Languages Shapes Participation in Algorithmic Decision-Making
The CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
with Samantha Robertson, Tonya Nguyen, Cathy Hu, Catherine Albiston, and Niloufar Salehi
Constrained Majorization: Applications in Mechanism Design
Economics and Computation (EC), 2022
Optimal Dynamic Allocation: Simplicity Through Information Design
Economics and Computation (EC), 2021,
with Itai Ashlagi and Faidra Monachou
What Matters in School Choice Tie-Breaking? How Competition Guides Design
Economics and Computation (EC), 2016,
with Itai Ashlagi
Reservation Exchange Markets for Internet Advertising
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP), 2016
with Gagan Goel, Stefano Leonardi, Vahab Mirrokni, and Renato Paes-Leme
Assigning more Students to Their Top Choices: A Tie-Breaking Rule Comparison
Economics and Computation (EC), 2015,
with Itai Ashlagi and Assaf Romm
Mechanism Design for Crowdsourcing: An Optimal 1-1/e Competitive Budget-Feasible Mechanism for Large Markets
Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2014,
with Nima Anari and Gagan Goel
Mechanism Design for Crowdsourcing Markets with Heterogeneous Tasks
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014
with Gagan Goel and Adish Singla
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