Matching plays a vital role in the rational allocation of resources in many areas, ranging from
market operation to people's daily lives. In economics, the term matching theory is coined for …

As economists increasingly help governments design new policies and regulations, they
take on an added responsibility to engage with the details of policy making and, in doing so …

Matching problems with preferences are all around us: they arise when agents seek to be
allocated to one another on the basis of ranked preferences over potential outcomes …

School-choice programs may increase schools' incentives for marketing rather than
improving their educational offering. This article systematically reviews the literature on the …

Problem definition: We consider an intermediary's problem of dynamically matching demand
and supply of heterogeneous types in a periodic-review fashion. Specifically, there are two …

We explore how college reputation affects the “big sort,” the process by which students
choose colleges and find their first jobs. We incorporate a simple definition of college …

We use a unique combination of register and survey data from Amsterdam to investigate the
performance of school assignment mechanisms in practice. We find that deferred …

This paper presents discrete convex analysis as a tool for economics and game theory.
Discrete convex analysis is a new framework of discrete mathematics and optimization …

A principal allocates an object to one of I agents. Each agent values receiving the object and
has private information regarding the value to the principal of giving it to him. There are no …

We study decentralized college admissions with uncertain student preferences. Colleges
strategically admit students likely to be overlooked by competitors. Highly ranked students …