Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer …-induced certification acts as an inspection device, seller-induced certification as a signalling device. Seller-induced certification …

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

favorable conditions for matching on the one hand, and for global collective decisions on the other hand. We establish …

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of …

inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while …

model the principal-agent economy as a two-sided matching game and characterise the set of stable outcomes of this principal …-agent matching market. A simple mechanism to implement the set of stable outcomes is proposed. Finally, we put forward examples of …

two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers search for jobs …