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We study the problem of designing a two-sided market (double auction) to maximize the gains from trade (social welfare) under the constraints of (dominant-strategy) incentive compatibility and budget-balance. Our goal is to do so for an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Moshe Babaioff , Amitai Frey , Noam Nisan

In this paper, we propose a new recommendation algorithm for addressing the problem of two-sided online matching markets with complementary preferences and quota constraints, where agents' preferences are unknown a priori and must be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Yuantong Li , Guang Cheng , Xiaowu Dai

We study a decentralized matching market in which firms sequentially make offers to potential workers. For each offer, the worker can choose "accept" or "reject," but the decision is irrevocable. The acceptance of an offer guarantees her…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Yasushi Kawase , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

The Deferred Acceptance (DA) algorithm is an elegant procedure for finding a stable matching in two-sided matching markets. It ensures that no pair of agents prefers each other to their matched partners. In this work, we initiate the study…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hadi Hosseini , Grzegorz Lisowski , Shraddha Pathak

Matching plays a vital role in the rational allocation of resources in many areas, ranging from market operation to people's daily lives. In economics, the term matching theory is coined for pairing two agents in a specific market to reach…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jing Ren , Feng Xia , Xiangtai Chen , Jiaying Liu , Mingliang Hou , Ahsan Shehzad , Nargiz Sultanova , Xiangjie Kong

We study a practical centralized matching problem which assigns children to daycare centers. The collective preferences of siblings from the same family introduce complementarities, which can lead to the absence of stable matchings, as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhaohong Sun , Tomohiko Yokoyama , Makoto Yokoo

Results from the communication complexity literature have demonstrated that stable matching requires communication: one cannot find or verify a stable match without having access to essentially all of the ordinal preference information held…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-12-09 Naveen Durvasula

Two-sided matching markets have long existed to pair agents in the absence of regulated exchanges. A common example is school choice, where a matching mechanism uses student and school preferences to assign students to schools. In such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Stefania Ionescu , Yuhao Du , Kenneth Joseph , Anikó Hannák

We introduce a simple benchmark model of dynamic matching in networked markets, where agents arrive and depart stochastically and the network of acceptable transactions among agents forms a random graph. We analyze our model from three…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Mohammad Akbarpour , Shengwu Li , Shayan Oveis Gharan

Motivated by growing evidence of agents' mistakes in strategically simple environments, we propose a solution concept -- robust equilibrium -- that requires only an asymptotically optimal behavior. We use it to study large random matching…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-26 Georgy Artemov , Yeon-Koo Che , YingHua He

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 paper I present several algorithmic techniques for improving the decision process of multiple types of agents behaving in environments where their interests are in conflict. The interactions between the agents are modelled by using…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-04 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

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

Coordination failure reduces match quality among employers and candidates in the job market, resulting in a large number of unfilled positions and/or unstable, short-term employment. Centralized job search engines provide a platform that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Amar Saini

We study the implementability of stable matchings in a two-sided market model with one-sided incomplete information. Firms' types are publicly known, whereas workers' types are private information. A mechanism generates a matching and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-23 Dinko Dimitrov , Dipjyoti Majumdar

The matching literature often recommends market centralization under the assumption that agents know their own preferences and that their preferences are fixed. We find counterevidence to this assumption in a quasi-experiment. In Germany's…

General Economics · Economics 2022-06-07 Julien Grenet , YingHua He , Dorothea Kübler

Based on the success of recommender systems in e-commerce, there is growing interest in their use in matching markets (e.g., labor). While this holds potential for improving market fluidity and fairness, we show in this paper that naively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Yi Su , Magd Bayoumi , Thorsten Joachims

The balance between convergence and diversity is a key issue of evolutionary multi-objective optimization. The recently proposed stable matching-based selection provides a new perspective to handle this balance under the framework of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Mengyuan Wu , Ke Li , Sam Kwong , Yu Zhou , Qingfu Zhang

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

The study of stable matchings usually relies on the assumption that agents' preferences over the opposite side are complete and known. In many real markets, however, preferences might be uncertain and revealed only through costly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Moshe Babaioff , Rotem Gil , Assaf Romm