strategies, showing that the cutoff signals implement all implementable state-independent distributions of students across …

The matching literature commonly rules out that market design itself shapes agent preferences. Underlying this premise … matching process. Under this assumption, a centralized matching market can often outperform a decentralized one. Using a quasi … students to learn about universities and accepting a university that turns out to be inferior causes regret. We discuss and …

The matching literature commonly rules out that market design itself shapes agent preferences. Underlying this premise … matching process. Under this assumption, a centralized matching market can often outperform a decentralized one. Using a quasi … students to learn about universities and accepting a university that turns out to be inferior causes regret. We discuss and …

colleges to strategically target their admissions, forgoing students sought after by others and seeking students overlooked by … others. When students' types are multidimensional, colleges avoid head-on competition by placing excessive weights on less … the resulting assignments of decentralized matching are inefficient and unfair. A centralized matching via Gale and …