Contract design and stability in many-to-many matching

B-Tier
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2017
Volume: 101
Issue: C
Pages: 78-97

Authors (2)

Hatfield, John William (not in RePEc) Kominers, Scott Duke (Harvard University)

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We develop a model of many-to-many matching with contracts that subsumes as special cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer–seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes; moreover, in contrast to results for the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts, if any agent's preferences are not substitutable, then the existence of a stable outcome can not be guaranteed.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:101:y:2017:i:c:p:78-97
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25