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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307931
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281521
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Adjusting prices in the many-to-many assignment game
Sotomayor, Marilda - 2008
Starting with an initial price vector, prices are adjusted in order to eliminate the demand excess and at the same time to keep the transfers to the sellers as low as possible. In each step of the auction, to which sellers should those transfers be made (minimal overdemanded sets) is the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284074
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental investigation
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286341
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Comparative statics in the multiple-partners assignment game
Pérez-Castrillo, J. David; Sotomayor, Marilda - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875989
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Flipping a coin : theory and evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2014 - rev.
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments our participants often choose a stochastically dominated lottery between outcomes, contradicting most theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350796
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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kübler, Dorothea; Dwenger, Nadja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822191
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Promoting School Competition Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach
Hatfield, John William; Kojima, Fuhito; Narita, Yusuke - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2011
We study the effect of different school choice mechanisms on schools' incentives for quality improvement. To do so, we introduce the following criterion: A mechanism respects improvements of school quality if each school becomes weakly better off whenever that school becomes more preferred by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353445
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MODELING COOPERATIVE DECISION SITUATIONS: THE DEVIATION FUNCTION FORM AND THE EQUILIBRIUM CONCEPT
Sotomayor, Marilda - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2013
concept of stability of the matching models, viewed as a cooperative equilibrium concept, be translated to any game in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686036
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Flipping a Coin: Theory and Evidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; Weizsäcker, Georg - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments the participants often choose lotteries between allocations, which contradicts most theories of choice such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757728