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 …

A costless signaling mechanism has been proposed as a device to improve welfare in decentralized two-sided matching … information between firms and workers and show that costless signaling is actually harmful in some matching markets. Specifically … facilitates match formation. -- Matching Markets ; Signaling …

-empty subset of agents S if (a) no agent in S prefers the first matching to the second, and (b) no agent in S and his room-mate in … S under the second matching prefer each other to their respective room-mates in the first matching, then no room-mate of … an agent in S prefers the second matching to the first. This result is a strengthening of a result originally due to …