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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
Chen, Cuicui - 2016
A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good. Absent a central authority, voluntary arrangements must replace coercive ones. Significant under-provision must be expected. International public goods are particularly...
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Discretionary Policy and Multiple Equilibria
King, Robert G. - 2006
Discretionary policymaking can foster strategic complementarities between private sector decisions, thus leading to multiple equilibria. This article studies a simple example, originating with Kydland and Prescott, of a government which must decide whether to build a dam to prevent adverse...
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The Political Economy of Responses to COVID-19 in the U.S.A.
Cui, Zhihan; Heal, Geoffrey; Kunreuther, Howard; Liu, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Social distancing via shelter-in-place strategies, and wearing masks, have emerged as the most effective non-pharmaceutical ways of combatting COVID-19. In the United States, choices about these policies are made by individual states. We develop a game-theoretic model and then test it...
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School Choice
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Andersson, Tommy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, this market for school seats is cleared via market design solutions grounded in recent advances in matching and mechanism …
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Inattention and Inequity in School Matching
Bucher, Stefan F.; Caplin, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
field studies of school matching show that information is imperfect, particularly for disadvantaged students. We model …
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Interdependent Values in Matching Markets : Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark
Friedrich, Benjamin; Hackmann, Martin B.; Kapor, Adam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
participants in a two-sided matching market. We consider the market for medical school programs in Denmark, which uses a … understanding and designing matching markets …
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Marriage Market Equilibrium
Pollak, Robert A. - 2016
market equilibrium is the Gale-Shapley matching model, not the Koopmans-Beckmann assignment model. These models have …
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Identification in Matching Games
Fox, Jeremy T. - 2009
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. - 2008
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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Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching Public School Teachers to Jobs : Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets
Boyd, Donald - 2003
approach is based on a game-theoretic two-sided matching model and the estimation strategy employs the method of simulated …
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