Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions …

theory, I propose a two-stage model of donor search behavior to explain the effects of transparency and exposure on both …

Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …

gumbel distributed stochastic part, and derived its equilibrium output, a marriage match- ing function. The marriage matching …

search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers. Thereby, the class of local polynomial matching … estimators is the central object of investigation. The first essay concentrates on applying local polynomial matching methods in … algorithms for the matching estimator. …