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We study the truthful facility assignment problem, where a set of agents with private most-preferred points on a metric space are assigned to facilities that lie on the metric space, under capacity constraints on the facilities. The goal is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Ioannis Caragiannis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Soren Kristoffer Stiil Frederiksen , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Zihan Tan

In school choice, students make decisions based on their expectations of particular schools' suitability, and the decision to gather information about schools is influenced by the acceptance odds determined by the mechanism in place. We…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-03-15 SangMok Lee

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

The standard two-sided and one-sided matching problems, and the closely related school choice problem, have been widely studied from an axiomatic viewpoint. A small number of algorithms dominate the literature. For two-sided matching, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Jacky Lo , Mark C. Wilson

The bidirectional selection between two classes widely emerges in various social lives, such as commercial trading and mate choosing. Until now, the discussions on bidirectional selection in structured human society are quite limited. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-23 Bin Zhou , Zhe He , Luo-Luo Jiang , Nian-Xin Wang , Bing-Hong Wang

We study the stable matching problem under the random matching model where the preferences of the doctors and hospitals are sampled uniformly and independently at random. In a balanced market with $n$ doctors and $n$ hospitals, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Simon Mauras , Pawel Pralat , Adrian Vetta

We study dynamic matching in an infinite-horizon stochastic market. While all agents are potentially compatible with each other, some are hard-to-match and others are easy-to-match. Agents prefer to be matched as soon as possible and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Itai Ashlagi , Maximillien Burq , Patrick Jaillet , Vahideh Manshadi

Prediction markets are designed to elicit information from multiple agents in order to predict (obtain probabilities for) future events. A good prediction market incentivizes agents to reveal their information truthfully; such incentive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Vincent Conitzer

We study the problem of online learning in two-sided non-stationary matching markets, where the objective is to converge to a stable match. In particular, we consider the setting where one side of the market, the arms, has fixed known set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Deepan Muthirayan , Chinmay Maheshwari , Pramod P. Khargonekar , Shankar Sastry

Prediction markets are often used as mechanisms to aggregate information about a future event, for example, whether a candidate will win an election. The event is typically assumed to be exogenous. In reality, participants may influence the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Mithun Chakraborty , Sanmay Das

Given a set of $n$ individuals with strict preferences over $m$ indivisible objects, the Random Serial Dictatorship (RSD) mechanism is a method for allocating objects to individuals in a way that is efficient, fair, and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-03 Maor Ben Zaquen , Ron Holzman

We study the problem of assigning indivisible objects to agents where each is to receive at most one. To ensure fairness in the absence of monetary compensation, we consider random assignments. Random Priority, also known as Random Serial…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-24 Christian Basteck

To guarantee all agents are matched in general, the classic Deferred Acceptance algorithm needs complete preference lists. In practice, preference lists are short, yet stable matching still works well. This raises two questions: $\bullet$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ishan Agarwal , Richard Cole

We study two-sided many-to-one matching markets with transferable utilities, e.g., labor and rental housing markets, in which money can exchange hands between agents, subject to distributional constraints on the set of feasible allocations.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-26 Devansh Jalota , Michael Ostrovsky , Marco Pavone

Models to mimic the transmission of information in financial markets are introduced. As an attempt to generate the demand process, we distinguish between dictatorship associations, where groups of agents rely on one of them to make…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-31 R. d'Hulst , G. J. Rodgers

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 two-sided matching markets in which one side of the market (the players) does not have a priori knowledge about its preferences for the other side (the arms) and is required to learn its preferences from experience. Also, we assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Lydia T. Liu , Feng Ruan , Horia Mania , Michael I. Jordan

We study the classical problem of matching $n$ agents to $n$ objects, where the agents have ranked preferences over the objects. We focus on two popular desiderata from the matching literature: Pareto optimality and rank-maximality. Instead…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Hadi Hosseini , Vijay Menon , Nisarg Shah , Sujoy Sikdar

Who gains and who loses from a manipulable school-choice mechanism? Studying the outcomes of sincere and sophisticated students under the manipulable Boston Mechanism as compared with the strategy-proof Deferred Acceptance, we provide…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Moshe Babaioff , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Assaf Romm

Sequential fundraising in two sided online platforms enable peer to peer lending by sequentially bringing potential contributors, each of whose decisions impact other contributors in the market. However, understanding the dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Soumajyoti Sarkar