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 …

method based on propensity score matching. The average house prices for two periods are compared by selecting pairs of …. The uncertainty associated with such matching is addressed by multiple imputation, framing the problem as involving …

This paper analyzes the problem of matching heterogeneous agents in a Bayesian learning model. One agent gives a noisy … cross-matching occurs, so that agents of low knowledge catch up with those of higher one. It is shown that: (i) a greater … informational component in production makes cross-matching more likely; (ii) as the new technology is mastered, production becomes …

period job matching model is studied, in which risk averse agents act both as workers and as entrepreneurs. They choose …

accumulated by workers. A matching function relates unemployment, hiring expenditure, and search effort to the formation of jobs …