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Royal Processions: Incentives, Efficiency and Fairness in Two-sided Matching

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  • Sophie Bade
  • Joseph Root

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We study the set of incentive compatible and efficient two-sided matching mechanisms. We classify all such mechanisms under an additional assumption -- "gender-neutrality" -- which guarantees that the two sides be treated symmetrically. All group strategy-proof, efficient and gender-neutral mechanisms are recursive and the outcome is decided in a sequence of rounds. In each round, two agents are selected, one from each side. These agents are either "matched-by-default" or "unmatched-by-default." In the former case either of the selected agents can unilaterally force the other to match with them while in the latter case they may only match together if both agree. In either case, if this pair of agents is not matched together, each gets their top choice among the set of remaining agents. As an important step in the characterization, we first show that in one-sided matching all group strategy-proof and efficient mechanisms are sequential dictatorships. An immediate corollary is that there are no individually rational, group strategy-proof and efficient one-sided matching mechanisms.

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  • Sophie Bade & Joseph Root, 2023. "Royal Processions: Incentives, Efficiency and Fairness in Two-sided Matching," Papers 2301.13037, arXiv.org.
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