{"id":1354,"date":"2022-09-19T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2022-09-19T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:11:25","slug":"aslan-fatma-receives-otka-postdoctoral-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/2022\/09\/19\/aslan-fatma-receives-otka-postdoctoral-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Aslan Fatma receives OTKA postdoctoral grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Title of project: <\/strong>Complex Collective Decision Problems: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theories of allocations deal with the problem of allocating a set of goods (objects) between a set of individuals given the agents\u2019 preferences over the possible outcomes. In most real-life allocation problems, a central planner implements a mechanism by collecting information about the agents\u2019 preferences. Some practical examples are the reallocation of dorm rooms to students by the housing office of a university, the decision of which patients will receive kidneys by the health authorities, and the allocation of teachers to public schools by the ministry of education.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is how to aggregate agents\u2019 announced preferences to achieve a collective decision (i.e., a final allocation) that respects certain desired criteria. This project investigates allocation problems of purely indivisible goods with complex outcomes where complexity stems from some interdependencies in preferences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the results are applicable to other settings with similar structures, a natural application this project considers is the (re)assignment problem of teachers to public schools. The interdependencies in individuals\u2019 preferences come from the fact that there is a significant proportion of couples in the population of teachers; each partner cares not only about the \u201cquality\u201d of her new position but also about how far this position is from her partner\u2019s.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this project, we aim to (i) design new reallocation mechanisms for public school teachers whose objective is to comply with the couples\u2019 concern about the proximity; (ii) empirically quantify the gains these mechanisms would bring in a real-life teacher assignment setting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Grant:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cOTKA\u201d postdoctoral excellence program (PD_22) granted support to early-stage researchers with doctoral degrees to help them to stay in research and build a career by joining a research group and cooperating with experienced researchers in Hungary for a period of three years. This year, applicants submitted 301 project proposals with a total of HUF 8 billion in request, and 4 projects in Economics have been decided to support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/nkfih.gov.hu\/palyazoknak\/nkfi-alap\/tamogatott-projektek-pd22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title of project: Complex Collective Decision Problems:  Summary:  Theories of allocations deal with the problem of allocating a set of goods (objects) between a set of individuals given the agents\u2019 preferences over the possible outcomes. In most real-life allocation problems, a central planner implements a mechanism by collecting information about the agents\u2019 preferences. Some practical … Continue reading “Aslan Fatma receives OTKA postdoctoral grant”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aslan","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qsms.bme.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}