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This paper studies a decentralized many-to-one matching market where preferences remain uncertain during the matching process. Institutions initiate matching by sending offers, and applicants decide whether to accept upon receiving them.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-14 Yu-Ting Ho

We study a dynamic matching problem on a two-sided platform with unbalanced patience, in which long-lived supply accumulates over time with a unit waiting cost per period, while short-lived demand departs if not matched promptly. High- or…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-05 Zhiyuan Chen , Rui , Chen , Ming Hu , Yun Zhou

Centralized assignment markets have historically relied on Deferred-Acceptance (DA) algorithms, which do not incorporate multiple objectives into the assignment. In this work, we propose an optimization-based many-to-one assignment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Carol Gao

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

Using school choice as a motivating example, we introduce a stylized model of a many-to-one matching market where the clearinghouse aims to implement contingent priorities, i.e., priorities that depend on the current assignment, to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Ignacio Rios , Federico Bobbio , Margarida Carvalho , Alfredo Torrico

Advancements in digitization have enabled two sided manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) marketplaces which has significantly reduced product development time for designers. These platforms provide designers with access to manufacturing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Deepak Pahwa

I introduce a stability notion, dynamic stability, for two-sided dynamic matching markets where (i) matching opportunities arrive over time, (ii) matching is one-to-one, and (iii) matching is irreversible. The definition addresses two…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-03-01 Laura Doval

In this dissertation two simple models of stock exchange are developed and simulated numerically. The first is characterized by centralized trading with a market maker. Unfortunately, this model is unable to generate realistic market…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Hendrik J. Blok

We initiate the study of deep learning for the automated design of two-sided matching mechanisms. What is of most interest is to use machine learning to understand the possibility of new tradeoffs between strategy-proofness and stability.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath , Zhe Feng , Shira Li , Jonathan Ma , Scott D. Kominers , David C. Parkes

This paper examines equilibria in dynamic two-sided matching games, extending Gale and Shapley's foundational model to a non-cooperative, decentralized, and dynamic framework. We focus on markets where agents have utility functions and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-12-02 Nadia Guiñazú , Pablo Neme , Jorge Oviedo

In this paper, I introduce a profit-maximizing centralized marketplace into a decentralized market with search frictions. Agents choose between the centralized marketplace and the decentralized bilateral trade. I characterize the optimal…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-11-29 Berk Idem

Two-sided matching platforms provide users with menus of match recommendations. To maximize the number of realized matches between the two sides (referred here as customers and suppliers), the platform must balance the inherent tension…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Itai Ashlagi , Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy , Rahul Makhijani , Daniela Saban , Kirankumar Shiragur

We explore the possibility of designing matching mechanisms that can accommodate non-standard choice behavior. We pin down the necessary and sufficient conditions on participants' choice behavior for the existence of stable and incentive…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-08-12 Gian Caspari , Manshu Khanna

This paper studies matching markets where institutions are matched with possibly more than one individual. The matching market contains some couples who view the pair of jobs as complements. First, we show by means of an example that a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-11 Shashwat Khare , Souvik Roy , Ton Storcken

An approximation of strategyproofness in large, two-sided matching markets is highly evident. Through simulations, one can observe that the percentage of agents with useful deviations decreases as the market size grows. Furthermore, there…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lars Lien Ankile , Kjartan Krange , Yuto Yagi

This paper develops an integer programming approach to two-sided many-to-one matching by investigating stable integral matchings of a fictitious market where each worker is divisible. We show that stable matchings exist in a discrete…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-11 Chao Huang

Two-sided manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) marketplaces connect clients requesting manufacturing services to suppliers providing those services. Matching mechanisms i.e. allocation of clients' orders to suppliers is a key design parameter…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Deepak Pahwa , Umut Dur , Binil Starly

Market equilibria of matching markets offer an intuitive and fair solution for matching problems without money with agents who have preferences over the items. Such a matching market can be viewed as a variation of Fisher market, albeit…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Saeed Alaei , Pooya Jalaly , Eva Tardos

The stable marriage problem and its extensions have been extensively studied, with much of the work in the literature assuming that agents fully know their own preferences over alternatives. This assumption however is not always practical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Baharak Rastegari , Paul Goldberg , David Manlove

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