Working papers

Incentivizing Participation of Compatible Pairs in Kidney Exchange Programs

This paper examines the effects of incentivizing compatible pairs to participate in kidney exchange programs, highlighting benefits for both compatible and incompatible pairs.

January 2025 · Antonio Nicolo, Louise Demoor, Radu Mincu, Maria Plaktieva, Caterina di Bella, Lucrezia Furian

Non-obvious Manipulability with Groups in Shapley-Scarf Housing Markets

This paper introduce NOM with groups, an incentive condition between strategy-proofness and non-obvious manipulability in which agents know only their own group’s preferences, and characterize the housing-market mechanisms that satisfy it via a new family of TTC variants.

August 2026 · Louise Demoor, Martí Jané-Ballarín, Pierre Nunn, Subhajit Pramanik, Antoine Prévotat, Makoto Yokoo

When to Hold Back a Match: Matching Policy in Kidney Exchange with Endogenous Participation

We study when a kidney exchange should delay matches to keep hard-to-match patients’ prospects alive, accounting for the fact that patients decide whether to participate based on how long they expect to wait.