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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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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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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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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
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Vacancies in supply chain networks
Hatfield, John William; Kominers, Scott Duke - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 3, pp. 354-357
We use the supply chain matching framework to study the effects of firm exit. We show that the exit of an initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010664125
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Testing substitutability
Hatfield, John William; Immorlica, Nicole; Kominers, … - In: Games and Economic Behavior 75 (2012) 2, pp. 639-645
We provide an algorithm for testing the substitutability of a length-N preference relation over a set of contracts X in time O(|X|3⋅N3). Access to the preference relation is essential for this result: We show that a substitutability-testing algorithm with access only to an agentʼs choice...
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Multilateral matching
Hatfield, John William; Kominers, Scott Duke - In: Journal of Economic Theory 156 (2015) C, pp. 175-206
We introduce a matching model in which agents engage in joint ventures via multilateral contracts. This approach allows … us to consider production complementarities previously outside the scope of matching theory. We show analogues of the …
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