This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage … account for important empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. …

students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …

set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with …

the effects of temporary and permanent sector-specific shocks in a New Keynesian matching model. We show that temporary …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown …

. The bargaining behavior resembles the Ultimatum game to the extent that proposers request a fixed price for a shared ride … positions of the bargaining parties are hardly symmetric and the formation of the full group is not guaranteed. Using a simple …

of the intellectual property rights and franchise bargaining system to analyze how the rent/franchise fee and …The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the distribution of rent are central issues in R …, decreasing the IPR protection will increase the rent/franchise fee. The authors also show that the growth-maximizing effects of …