We experimentally study decentralized one-to-one matching markets with transfers. We vary the information available to … markets often culminate in efficient matchings, stability is more elusive, reflecting the difficulty of arranging attendant … transfers. Second, incomplete information and submodularity present hurdles to efficiency and especially stability; their …

We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a … positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative …

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …

model the principal-agent economy as a two-sided matching game and characterise the set of stable outcomes of this principal …-agent matching market. A simple mechanism to implement the set of stable outcomes is proposed. Finally, we put forward examples of …

that have different degrees of overconfidence. The channel through which the matching occurs is the share of bonus payments … to an assortative matching between overconfident managers and banks with a larger bailout probability. We then test the …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …