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A Solution to Matching with Preferences over Colleagues

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  • Echenique, Federico
  • Yenmez, Mehmet B.

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We study many-to-one matchings, such as the assignment of students to colleges, where the students have preferences over the other students who would attend the same college. It is well known that the core of this model may be empty, without strong assumptions on agents’ preferences. We introduce a method that finds all core matchings, if any exist. The method requires no assumptions on preferences. Our method also finds certain partial solutions that may be useful when the core is empty.

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Paper provided by California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences in its series Working Papers with number 1226.

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Length: 25 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2005
Publication status: Published in Games and Economic Behavior 59 (2007) 46-71.
Handle: RePEc:clt:sswopa:1226
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Keywords: matching markets; core; lattice; Gale-Shapley algorithm;

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  • C65 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Miscellaneous Mathematical Tools
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