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benefit payments compared to the wage earned in available jobs - labour supply and matching - a theoretical approach to …
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. We show that in problems where some students cannot credibly submit a single school as the only acceptable option, it is …
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centralized assignment are able to attract students with substantially higher test scores and that geographical mobility of … admitted students increases. While there are no sizable effects on final enrollment rates, search is intensified. Overall, our …
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Two notions of stability, ex ante stability and Bayesian stability, are investigated in a matching model with non …-transferrable utility, interdependent preferences, and one-sided incomplete information. Ex ante stable matching-outcomes are unblocked for … every belief on the blocking partner's type while Bayesian stable matching-outcomes are unblocked with respect to prior …
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The automated negotiation process seems to be a powerful mechanism to resolve disputes arising from Internet-based transactions. Automated negotiation is an online blind-bidding process in which an automated algorithm evaluates bids from the parties and settles the case if the offers are within...
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becomes weakly better off whenever that school improves, i.e., becomes more preferred by students. We first show that neither … any stable mechanism nor mechanism that is Pareto efficient for students (such as the Boston and top trading cycles …
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-sided matching markets through a dynamic mechanism. We first show that CCs provide a complete characterization of singleton cores in … two-sided matching markets. Secondly, we prove the existence of a bijection between the CCs structures and the lattice …
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used school admissions procedures: the Gale-Shapley mechanism and the Boston mechanism. In a lab experiment, I compare the … assumptions in matching theory, I show that the Boston mechanism improves perceived fairness. These results underscore the …
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This paper analyzes grading competition between instructors of elective courses when students shop for high course …. First, the school caps top scores directly. Then, grading competition divides students into a concentrated group of … flexible curriculum. Hence, all students will prefer rigid curricula. Third, the school requires that the mean-score ceiling is …
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colleges to strategically target their admissions, forgoing students sought after by others and seeking students overlooked by … others. When students' types are multidimensional, colleges avoid head-on competition by placing excessive weights on less … the resulting assignments of decentralized matching are inefficient and unfair. A centralized matching via Gale and …
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