Credible Group-Deviation in Multi-Partner Matching Problems
01.01.2003
Hideo Konishi, M. Utku Unver
C71,C72,C78,J41
Multi-partner matching problem,Pairwise stable matching network,Credible group deviation
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Carlo Carraro
It is known that in two-sided many-to-many matching problems, pairwise-stable matchings may not be immune to group deviations, unlike in many-to-one matching problems (Blair 1988). In this paper, we show that pairwise stability is equivalent to credible group stability when one side has responsive preferences and the other side has categorywise-responsive preferences. A credibly group-stable matching is immune to any “executable” group deviations with an appropriate definition of executability. Under the same preference restriction, we also show the equivalence between the set of pairwise-stable matchings and the set of matchings generated by coalition-proof Nash equilibria of an appropriately defined strategic-form game.