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Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching Public School Teachers to Jobs : Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets

Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; … - 2021

approach is based on a game-theoretic two-sided matching model and the estimation strategy employs the method of simulated …

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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games with an Application to Venture Capital

Fox, Jeremy T. - 2012

Agents in two-sided matching games vary in characteristics that are unobservable in typical data on matching markets …. In full generality, we consider many-to-many matching and matching with trades. The distribution of match …

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Identification in Matching Games

Fox, Jeremy T. - 2010

I study a many-to-many, two-sided, transferable-utility matching game. Consider data on matches or relationships …

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Estimating Matching Games with Transfers

Fox, Jeremy T. - 2021

I explore the estimation of transferable utility matching games, encompassing many-to-many matching, marriage and … matching with trading networks (trades). I introduce a matching maximum score estimator that does not suffer from a … computational curse of dimensionality in the number of agents in a matching market. I apply the estimator to data on the car parts …

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Median Stable Matching

Schwarz, Michael - 2010

We define the median stable matching for two-sided matching markets with side payments and prove constructively that it …

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Trust in Large Organizations

La Porta, Rafael; López-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - 2010

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and therefore of performance of social institutions. We argue that trust should be particularly important for the performance of large organizations. In a cross-section of countries,...

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Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining

Helpman, Elhanan; Persson, Torsten - 2022

We examine the effects of the interaction between lobbying and legislative bargaining on policy formation. Two systems are considered: a US-style congressional system and a European-style parliamentary system. First, we show that the policies generated are not intermediate between policies that...

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Models of Currency Crises with Self-Fulfilling Features

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2000

The discomfort a government suffers from speculation against its currency determines the strategic incentives of speculators and the scope for multiple currency-market equilibria. After describing an illustrative model in which high unemployment may cause an exchange- rate crisis with...

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Are Protests Games of Strategic Complements or Substitutes? Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Democracy Movement

Cantoni, Davide - 2017

The decision to protest is strategic: an individual's participation is a function of her beliefs about others' turnout. Models of protest often assume strategic complementarity; however, the challenge of collective action suggests strategic substitutability. We conduct the first field experiment...

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The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

Societies under similar geographic and economic conditions and subject to similar external influences nonetheless develop very different types of states. At one extreme are weak states with little capacity and ability to regulate economic or social relations. At the other are despotic states...

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