TUBITAK 1001 – Support Program for Scientific and Technological Research Projects

Özgür Yılmaz, Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, received the “TUBITAK 1001 – Support Program for Scientific and Technological Research Projects” grant with his research project entitled “Allocation of Off-hour Pharmacy Shifts: Mechanism Design Approach”.

Existing off-hour-pharmacy-shift matching methods do not take into account the preferences of pharmacies and this results in a significant welfare loss given the scale of this matching market. Additionally, the design of matching mechanisms satisfying fairness and efficiency requires proper definitions of these principles. The main objective of the project is to design mechanisms that provide feasible, fair and Pareto efficient matching outcomes by taking the dynamic structure of the problem into account.

We wholeheartedly congratulate Assoc. Prof. Özgür Yılmaz for this outstanding accomplishment and best wishes for his continued success.