Although the effects of corruption on bilateral trade are well-documented, its impact on the composition of trading partners remains unexplored. In this paper, we argue that corruption in a country imposes asymmetric costs on its trading partners depending on their characteristics. Consequently,...

The topic of stability of fractional matchings has started receiving attention only very recently with incentive compatibility in this context receiving scarce attention. Our paper studies the incentive compatibility of mechanisms finding stable fractional matchings. Agent preferences are...

In the National Resident Matching Program, doctors and hospitals submit their preferences to a clearinghouse, who finds a stable matching with respect to the submissions. This matching might not be stable with respect to the true preferences since participants rank only the potential partners...

We introduce the groupwise-pivotal referral (GPR) mechanism for auctions where buyers can participate through referrals. Each buyer's type consists of a valuation and referable buyers. Unlike the second-price auction (SPA), the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism provides referral incentives....

We propose a new solution concept in the roommate problem, weak stability against robust deviations (wSaRD), by weakening a similar concept of Hirata et al. (2021). We identify a common sufficient condition for wSaRD and weak stability of Klijn and Massó (2003). We can always construct a weakly...

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

The nature of unemployment has been long disputed among economists. Is it a matching problem between job–seekers and the profiles sought by employers (structural unemployment) or rather a macroeconomic shortage of labour demand compared with aggregate supply (cyclical unemployment)? Different...

I study occupational mobility and the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on mobility using a task-based distance measure between occupations based on O*NET's classification of occupational skill requirements. Using job-to-unemployment-to-job transitions in the US Current Population Survey I...

We investigate whether primary care physician and patient concordance in terms of socio-economic status (SES) reduces the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES by their childhood SES and find that SES concordance decreases low-SES patients' mortality, while high-SES patients'...

Patients requiring kidney transplant may have proxy donors: people who want to donate a kidney to the patient, but cannot due to medical incompatibility. However, patients can swap proxy donors, so that each swapping patient ends up with a compatible donor. Some patients, called overloaded, have...