`marriage squeeze', a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women.As a result, dowry … payments rise in order to clear the marriage market.The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do not re-enter the … marriage market.This paper demonstrates that the marriage squeeze argument cannot explain dowry inflation in a proper dynamic …

The paper studies simple strategies of labor tax reform in a search and matching model of the labor market featuring …

Random matching models with different states are an important class of dynamic games; for example, money search models …

This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function in which the measure of job matches … corresponds to the measure of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been … market. In this paper, we specify and estimate matching functions where the flow corresponds to the correct stock. We use …

search and matching in labor markets. More specifically, it takes a discretetime adaptation of the continuous-time matching … for topological chaos.The implication is that even in a simple economy characterized by search and matching frictions, an …

In this note we introduceweak stability, a relaxation of the concept of stability for the marriage model by assuming …: an individually rational matching is weakly stable if for every blocking pair one of themembers can find a more … attractive partner with whom he forms another blocking pair for the original matching. Our main result is that under the …