Organizing Time Exchanges: Lessons from Matching Markets

B-Tier
Journal: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Year: 2021
Volume: 13
Issue: 1
Pages: 338-73

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

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Abstract

This paper considers time exchanges via a common platform (e.g., markets for exchanging time units, positions at education institutions, and tuition waivers). There are several problems associated with such markets, e.g., imbalanced outcomes, coordination problems, and inefficiencies. We model time exchanges as matching markets and construct a non-manipulable mechanism that selects an individually rational and balanced allocation that maximizes exchanges among the participating agents (and those allocations are efficient). This mechanism works on a preference domain whereby agents classify the goods provided by other participating agents as either unacceptable or acceptable, and for goods classified as acceptable, agents have specific upper quotas representing their maximum needs.

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RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aejmic:v:13:y:2021:i:1:p:338-73
Journal Field
General
Author Count
4
Added to Database
2026-01-24