I study a central authority's ability to commit to a publicly announced mechanism in a one-to-one agent-object matching … model. The authority announces a strategy-proof mechanism and then privately selects a mechanism to initiate a matching. An … agent's observation in form of the final matching has an innocent explanation (Akbarpour and Li, 2020), if given the agent …

We prove existence of steady-state equilibrium in a class of matching models with search frictions. …

The paper considers a one-to-one matching with contracts model in the presence of price controls. This set-up contains … two important streams in the matching literature, those with and those without monetary transfers, as special cases and …