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When several two-sided matching markets merge into one, it is inevitable that some agents will become worse off if the matching mechanism used is stable. I formalize this observation by defining the property of integration monotonicity,…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2018-09-17 Josue Ortega

We provide a framework to study stability notions for two-sided dynamic matching markets in which matching is one-to-one and irreversible. The framework gives center stage to the set of matchings an agent anticipates would ensue should they…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-10-17 Laura Doval , Pablo Schenone

We study the two-sided stable matching problem with one-sided uncertainty for two sets of agents A and B, with equal cardinality. Initially, the preference lists of the agents in A are given but the preferences of the agents in B are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Evripidis Bampis , Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter , Amitabh Trehan

We study the problem of repeated two-sided matching with uncertain preferences (two-sided bandits), and no explicit communication between agents. Recent work has developed algorithms that converge to stable matchings when one side (the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Gaurab Pokharel , Sanmay Das

Stable matching in a community consisting of men and women is a classical combinatorial problem that has been the subject of intense theoretical and empirical study since its introduction in 1962 in a seminal paper by Gale and Shapley, who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hugo Gimbert , Claire Mathieu , Simon Mauras

Many-to-one matching markets exist in numerous different forms, such as college admissions, matching medical interns to hospitals for residencies, assigning housing to college students, and the classic firms and workers market. In all these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Elizabeth Bodine-Baron , Christina Lee , Anthony Chong , Babak Hassibi , Adam Wierman

In two-sided matching markets, the agents are partitioned into two sets. Each agent wishes to be matched to an agent in the other set and has a strict preference over these potential matches. A matching is stable if there are no blocking…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Georgios Askalidis , Nicole Immorlica , Emmanouil Pountourakis

This paper characterizes the single-peaked domain on a tree via the strategy-proofness of extreme rules defined on that tree. For any tree, these rules are unanimous and anonymous on any preference domain. In particular, we show that they…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-30 Mihir Bhattacharya , Anup Pramanik

We study uncoordinated matching markets with additional local constraints that capture, e.g., restricted information, visibility, or externalities in markets. Each agent is a node in a fixed matching network and strives to be matched to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Martin Hoefer , Lisa Wagner

Strategy-proofness is a fundamental desideratum in mechanism design, ensuring truthful reporting and robust participation. Stability is another central requirement in matching markets, widely adopted in applications such as school choice…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhaohong Sun , Makoto Yokoo

We consider two-sided matching markets, and study the incentives of agents to circumvent a centralized clearing house by signing binding contracts with one another. It is well-known that if the clearing house implements a stable match and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Nick Arnosti , Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare

We study a matching problem between agents and public goods, in settings without monetary transfers. Since goods are public, they have no capacity constraints. There is no exogenously defined budget of goods to be provided. Rather, each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sara Fish , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Sergiu Hart

This paper deals with two-sided matching market with two disjoint sets, i.e. the set of buyers and the set of sellers. Each seller can trade with at most with one buyer and vice versa. Money is transferred from sellers to buyers for an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yasir Ali , Asma Javaid

We study the problem of allocating indivisible objects to a set of rational agents where each agent's final utility depends on the intrinsic valuation of the allocated item as well as the allocation within the agent's local neighbourhood.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Sagar Massand , Sunil Simon

The classic two-sided many-to-one job matching model assumes that firms treat workers as substitutes and workers ignore colleagues when choosing where to work. Relaxing these assumptions may lead to nonexistence of stable matchings.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-08-29 Ce Liu , Ziwei Wang , Hanzhe Zhang

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…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-01-31 Sophie Bade , Joseph Root

Group fairness is achieved by equalising prediction distributions between protected sub-populations; individual fairness requires treating similar individuals alike. These two objectives, however, are incompatible when a scoring model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Edward A. Small , Kacper Sokol , Daniel Manning , Flora D. Salim , Jeffrey Chan

The most popular stability notion in games should be Nash equilibrium under the rationality of players who maximize their own payoff individually. In contrast, in many scenarios, players can be (partly) irrational with some unpredictable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Ching-Hua Yu

Consider a one-to-one two-sided matching market with workers on one side and single-position firms on the other, and suppose that the largest individually rational matching contains $n$ pairs. We show that the number of workers employed and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-02 Gregory Z. Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo