Two-Sided Matching
Subtitle: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis
Series: Econometric Society Monographs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521437882
Copyright date: 1990
Description: Winner of the Operations Research Society of America Lanchester Award, Two-Sided Matching provides a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching such as between firms and workers in labor markets, and between buyers and sellers in auctions. The book begins with a discussion of empirical results concerning behavior in such markets, and then proceeds to analyze a variety of related models. Among the discrete and continuous models considered are those with complete or incomplete information, money or barter, single or multiple workers, and simple or complex preferences. The book examines the stability of outcomes, the modification of incentives to agents under different organizational rules, and the constraints imposed on market organization by the incentives. Using this wide range of related models and matching situations helps clarify which conclusions are robust and which depend on particular modeling assumptions.
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Table of contents: title: Foreword Robert Auman; title: Acknowledgment; title: 1. Introduction; title: Part I. One-To-One Matching: the Marriage Model:; title: 2. Stable matchings; title: 3. The structure of the set of stable matchings; title: 4. Strategic questions; title: Part II. Many-To-One Matching: Models in which Firms May Employ Many Workers:; title: 5. The college admissions model and the labor market for medical interns; title: 6. Discrete models with money, and more complex preferences; title: Part III. Models of One-To-One Matching with Money as a Continuous Variable:; title: 7. A simple model of one seller and many buyers; title: 8. The assignment game; title: 9. The generalization of the assignment model; title: Part IV. Epilogue:; title: 10. Open questions and research directions; title: Bibliography; title: Indexes.