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Identification of Matching Complementarities: A Geometric Viewpoint

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We provide a geometric formulation of the problem of identification of the matching surplus function and we show how the estimation problem can be solved by the introduction of a generalized entropy function over the set of matchings.

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  • Alfred Galichon, 2021. "Identification of Matching Complementarities: A Geometric Viewpoint," Papers 2102.03875, arXiv.org.
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