Two-Sided Matching A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis

Name: Two-Sided Matching A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis
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ISBN: 9780521437882

ISBN-10: 0521437881

ISBN-13: 9780521437882

Edition: 1992

Authors: Alvin E. Roth, Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor, Peter Hammond, Alberto Holly, Andrew Chesher

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Two-sided matching provides a model of search processes such as those between firms and workers in labor markets or between buyers and sellers in auctions. This book gives a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching. The focus of the book is on the stability of outcomes, on the incentives that different rules of organization give to agents, and on the constraints that these incentives impose on the ways such markets can be organized. The results for this wide range of related models and matching situations help clarify which conclusions depend on particular modeling assumptions and market conditions, and which are robust over a wide…

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List price: $57.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/26/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Foreword Robert Auman


Acknowledgment



Introduction



One-To-One Matching: the Marriage Model



Stable matchings



The structure of the set of stable matchings



Strategic questions



Many-To-One Matching: Models in which Firms May Employ Many Workers



The college admissions model and the labor market for medical interns



Discrete models with money, and more complex preferences



Models of One-To-One Matching with Money as a Continuous Variable



A simple model of one seller and many buyers



The assignment game



The generalization of the assignment model



Epilogue



Open questions and research directions


Bibliography


Indexes