A Solution to Matching with Preferences over Colleagues
Data
01.01.2005
01.01.2005
Autori
Federico Echenique, Mehmet B. Yenmez
Codice JEL
C65,C78
C65,C78
Parole chiave:
Matching markets,Core,Lattice,Gale-Shapley algorithm
Matching markets,Core,Lattice,Gale-Shapley algorithm
Publisher
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Editor
Carlo Carraro
Carlo Carraro
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.