Two-sided matching platforms can control and optimize over many aspects of the search for partners. To understand how … matching platforms should be designed, we introduce a dynamic two-sided search model with strategic agents who must bear a cost …

make investments before matching in a competitive market. We introduce the notion of premune-ation values—the values to the …

Compared to offline matching markets, online matching platforms improve search in thematching process, but at the same … interplay between these two processes in online matching, using game-theoretic models. We examine whether an online matching … should price its search and authentication services. Our results provide valuable insights for online matching platforms …