Crowd-shipping promises social, economic, and environmental benefits covering a range of
stakeholders. Yet, at the same time, many crowd-shipping initiatives face multiple barriers …

Toward understanding assortative matching, this is a self-contained introduction to research
on search and matching. We first explore the nontransferable and perfectly transferable …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

A growing number of school districts use centralized assignment mechanisms to allocate
school seats in a manner that reflects student preferences and school priorities. Many of …

Since 2017, the Bitcoin blockchain system has experienced 105 fork divergences. The
rapidly increasing blockchain forks have resulted in fierce competition and created …

We study two-sided matching markets in which one side of the market (the players) does not
have a priori knowledge about its preferences for the other side (the arms) and is required to …

The paper considers a model of competition among firms that produce a homogeneous
good in a networked environment. A bipartite graph determines which subset of markets a …

We show that a two-sided matching platform can successfully compete by limiting the
number of choices it offers to its customers, while charging higher prices than platforms with …

This paper studies two‐sided matching markets with non‐transferable utility when the
number of market participants grows large. We consider a model in which each agent has a …

Using a rich data set on Australian college admissions, we show that even in strategically
straightforward situations, a non-negligible fraction of applicants adopt strategies that are …