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Kushnir, Alexey - 2009

A costless signaling mechanism has been proposed as a device to improve welfare in decentralized two-sided matching markets. An example of such an environment is a job market for new Ph.D. economists. We study a market game of incomplete information between firms and workers and show that...

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A Solution to Matching with Preferences over Colleagues

Echenique, Federico; Yenmez, Mehmet B. - 2005

We study many-to-one matchings, such as the assignment of students to colleges, where the students have preferences over the other students who would attend the same college. It is well known that the core of this model may be empty, without strong assumptions on agents' preferences. We...

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The Evolution of Core Stability in Decentralized Matching Markets

Nax, Heinrich H.; Pradelski, Bary S. R.; Young, H. Peyton - 2013

Decentralized matching markets on the internet allow large numbers of agents to interact anonymously at virtually no cost. Very little information is available to market participants and trade takes place at many different prices simultaneously. We propose a decentralized, completely uncoupled...

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Optimal Truncation in Matching Markets

Coles, Peter; Shorrer, Ran - 2013

Since no stable matching mechanism can induce truth-telling as a dominant strategy for all participants, there is often room in matching markets for strategic misrepresentation (Roth [25]). In this paper we study a natural form of strategic misrepresentation: reporting a truncation of one's true...

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Constitutions and social networks

Mauleon, Ana; Roehl, Nils; Vannetelbosch, Vincent - 2015

, therefore, have influence on the stability of the job market. …

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How the Rules of Coalition Formation Affect Stability of International Environmental Agreements

Finus, Michael; Rundshagen, Bianca - 2003

This paper compares stability of international environmental agreements for six different rules of coalition formation … coalitions. From a policy perspective, counterintuitively, it turns out that stability is higher under exclusive than under open … membership and stability increases with the degree of unanimity. We discuss the policy implications of our result for future …

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Stable coalitions

Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen - 2002

This paper examines recent theoretical developments of the theory of coalition stability. It focuses on the …

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On the stability of cooperation structures

Haeringer, Guillaume - 2002

. We characterize the class of TU-games that ensure the stability of the full cooperation structure, which turns out to be …

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Multiple membership and federal structures

Le Breton, Michel; Makarov, Valery; Savvateev, Alexei; … - 2008

We consider a model of the 'world' with several regions that may create a unified entity or be partitioned into several unions (countries). The regions have distinct preferences over policies chosen in the country to which they belong and equally share the cost of public policies. It is known...

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Coalitional matchings

Dimitrov, Dinko; Lazarova, Emiliya - 2008

A coalitional matching is a two-sided matching problem in which agents on each side of the market may form coalitions such as student groups and research teams who - when matched - form universities. We assume that each researcher has preferences over the research teams he would like to work in...

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