Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis (Econometric Society Monographs, Series Number 18) - Softcover

Roth, Alvin E.; Sotomayor, Marilda A. Oliveira

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9780521437882: Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis (Econometric Society Monographs, Series Number 18)
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ISBN 10: 0521437881 ISBN 13: 9780521437882
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Two-sided matching provides a model of search processes such as those between firms and workers in labor markets or between buyers and sellers in auctions. This book gives a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching. The focus of the book is on the stability of outcomes, on the incentives that different rules of organization give to agents, and on the constraints that these incentives impose on the ways such markets can be organized. The results for this wide range of related models and matching situations help clarify which conclusions depend on particular modeling assumptions and market conditions, and which are robust over a wide range of conditions.

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Two-sided matching provides a model of search processes such as those between firms and workers in labor markets or between buyers and sellers in auctions. This text provides a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching.

Review

"This book chronicles one of the outstanding success stories of the theory of games, a story in which the authors have played a major role: the theory and practice of matching markets....The authors are to be warmly congratulated for this fine piece of work, which is quite unique in the game-theoretic literature." From the Foreword by Robert Aumann

"An expertly guided tour through an unfamiliar and beautiful region of equilibrium theory would be quite enough incentive for most economic theorists to buy and read this book. But perhaps the greatest treat offred is Roth's discovery of a happy coincidence between theory and practical affairs." Journal of Economic Literature

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521437881
ISBN 13 
9780521437882
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
280
Rating
  • 3.97 out of 5 stars
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