Impossibility of stable and nonbossy matching mechanisms

Stability is a central concept in matching theory, while nonbossiness is important in many allocation problems. We show that these properties are incompatible: there does not exist a matching mechanism that is both stable and nonbossy.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Kojima, Fuhito
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 107.2010, 1, p. 69-70
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Matching Stability Nonbossiness Impossibility theorem

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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