Scholar
Josué Ortega
Google Scholar ID: O_94BqMAAAAJ
Economics, Queen's University Belfast
Citations & Impact
Citations
237
H-index
8
i10-index
8
Publications
16
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published in Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Mathematical Economics, and Social Choice and Welfare.
- - Research featured in The Economist, The Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, BBC’s Thinking Allowed, and Forbes.
- - Recent papers include:
- - Identifying and Quantifying Unimprovable Students, with G. Ziegler, P. Aribillaga and G. Zhao
- - What Stable-Dominating Mechanisms Cannot Fix, with G. Ziegler, P. Aribillaga and G. Zhao
- - The Trade-off Between Minimal Instability and Larger Improvements over Deferred Acceptance, with T. Knipe
- - A Note on the Strategic Vulnerability of the Boston Mechanism in Random Markets
- - Publications:
- - School choice with independent versus consolidated districts, with T. Klein and R. Aue
- - The cost of strategy-proofness in school choice, with T. Klein
- - Fair cake-cutting in practice, with M. Kyropoulou and E. Segal-Halevi
- - Obvious manipulations in cake-cutting, with E. Segal-Halevi
- - On the integration of Shapley-Scarf housing markets, with K. Manocha and R. Kumar
- - Efficiency and fairness in cake-cutting with single-peaked preferences, with B. Bhardwaj and R. Kumar
- - Multi-unit assignment under dichotomous preferences
- - The losses from integration in matching markets can be large
- - Social integration in two-sided matching markets
- - Other Papers and Projects:
- - The limits of school choice with consent, with G. Ziegler
- - Experimental school choice with parents as subjects
- - Appeals in school choice
- - Social integration via online dating, with P. Hergovich
Research Experience
- - Program Committee member for the Economics and Computation Conference (2023–2025)
- - Program Committee member for the Matching in Practice Workshop (2022 & 2024)
- - Program Committee member for the Royal Economic Society Conference (2024)
- - Program Committee member for the Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (2025)
Education
- PhD from the University of Glasgow, advised by Hervé Moulin.
Background
- Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s University Belfast, specializing in market design.
Miscellany
- PhD Student: Taylor Knipe (2024 - present), funded by the Northern Ireland Department of Economy.
