We conduct one of the first laboratory experiments and noncooperative analyses of the de-centralized matching market … but some differ from experimental evidence. Stable matching, which coincides with efficient matching in this setting, is … core and whether efficient matching is assortative determine the rate of matching, efficient matching, and surplus achieved …

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

In this paper we consider one-to-many matching problems where the preferences of the agents involved are represented by … matching to a matching of maximum total reward, one can always provide a compensation schedule that will be ex-post stable in … uses the fact that the core of an associated compensation matching game with constraints is nonempty. …

Matching markets can be unstable when individuals prefer to be matched to a partner who also wants to be matched with … preferences exist, significantly decrease stability in matching markets, and are driven both by belief-based and preference …

empty, it contains a unique matching, the dominance invariant stable matching, in which all agents who mutually top rank …

) blocking dynamics in two-sided one-to-one matching markets with continuous side payments (assignment problems, Shapley and … obtained from the previous one by satisfying a blocking pair (i.e., by matching the two blocking agents and assigning new … the model (i.e., for marriage markets, one-to-one matching, or discretized assignment problems), the existence of blocking …