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Onur Kesten received his PhD in economics from the University of Rochester in 2005 and completed his post-doctorate at Harvard University in 2006 under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth. He is the recipient of the BP Junior Faculty Chair, Faculty Giving Chairs and won Richard Cyert Teaching award as well as the Lave-Weil prizes at Carnegie Mellon.His research focuses on market design and game theory. He has studied high schools and college admissions systems in the United States, China, Turkey, Sweden, Ukraine, Australia, and Saudi Arabia. His research was published in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Theoretical Economics, and Journal of Economic Theory. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of journal of Review of Economic Design and has served as Associate Editor at various other journals such as the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences and Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3098