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Equilibria under deferred acceptance: Dropping strategies, filled positions, and welfare

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  • Jaramillo, Paula
  • Kayı, Çaǧatay
  • Klijn, Flip

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We study many-to-one matching markets where hospitals have responsive preferences over students. We study the game induced by the student-optimal stable matching mechanism. We assume that students play their weakly dominant strategy of truth-telling.

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  • Jaramillo, Paula & Kayı, Çaǧatay & Klijn, Flip, 2013. "Equilibria under deferred acceptance: Dropping strategies, filled positions, and welfare," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 693-701.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:82:y:2013:i:c:p:693-701
    DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2013.10.001
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    1. David Pérez-Castrillo & Marilda Sotomayor, 2017. "The outcome of competitive equilibrium rules in buyer–seller markets when the agents play strategically," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 64(1), pages 99-119, June.
    2. David Pérez-Castrillo & Marilda Sotomayor, 2017. "On the manipulability of competitive equilibrium rules in many-to-many buyer–seller markets," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 46(4), pages 1137-1161, November.
    3. Klaus, Bettina & Klijn, Flip, 2016. "Equilibria of deferred acceptance with complete lists," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 98-101.
    4. Benjamín Tello, 2018. "Stability of Equilibrium Outcomes under Deferred Acceptance: Acyclicity and Dropping Strategies," Working Papers 2018-05, Banco de México.
    5. Tello Benjamín, 2017. "Stability of Equilibrium Outcomes under Deferred Acceptance: Acyclicity and Dropping Strategies," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 17(2), pages 1-9, June.

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    Keywords

    Many-to-one matching; Deferred acceptance; Nash equilibrium; Dropping strategies; Filled positions; Welfare;

    JEL classification:

    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
    • D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General

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