Managing Congestion in Matching Markets

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2020.0927

References

  • Albrecht J , Gautier PA , Vroman S (2006) Equilibrium directed search with multiple applications. Rev. Econom. Stud. 73(4):869–891.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Allon G , Bassamboo A , Cil E (2012) Large-scale service marketplaces: The role of the moderating firm. Management Sci. 58:1854–1872.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Anderson R , Ashlagi I , Gamarnik D , Kanoria Y (2017) Efficient dynamic barter exchange. Oper. Res. 65(6):1446–1459.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Arnosti N , Johari R , Kanoria Y (2019) Managing congestion in matching markets. Preprint, submitted November 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2427960.Google Scholar
  • Ashlagi I , Jaillet P , Manshadi VH (2013) Kidney exchange in dynamic sparse heterogenous pools. Preprint, submitted January 15, https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3509.Google Scholar
  • Balseiro SR , Besbes O , Weintraub GY (2015) Repeated auctions with budgets in ad exchanges: Approximations and design. Management Sci. 61(4):864–884.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Burdett K , Shi S , Wright R (2001) Pricing and matching with frictions. J. Political Econom. 109(5):1060–1085.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Coles P , Cawley J , Levine PB , Niederle M , Roth AE , Siegfried JJ (2010) The job market for new economists: A market design perspective. J. Econom. Perspect. 24(4):187–206.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Coles P , Kushnir A , Niederle M (2013) Preference signaling in matching markets. Amer. Econom. J. Microeconom. 5(2):99–134.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Diamond PA (1982a) Aggregate demand management in search equilibrium. J. Political Econom. 90(5):881–894.Google Scholar
  • Diamond PA (1982b) Wage determination and efficiency in search equilibrium. Rev. Econom. Stud. 49(2):217–227.Google Scholar
  • Field H (2019) Upwork to charge freelancers to bid on jobs, further squeezing those who rely on the ’gig economy.’ Entrepreneur (April 3), https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331700.Google Scholar
  • Fradkin A (2017) Search, matching, and the role of digital marketplace design in enabling trade: Evidence from Airbnb. Working paper, Boston University, Boston.Google Scholar
  • Galenianos M , Kircher P (2009) Directed search with multiple job applications. J. Econom. Theory 144(2):445–471.Google Scholar
  • Galenianos M , Kircher P (2012) On the game-theoretic foundations of competitive search equilibrium. Internat. Econom. Rev. 53(1):1–21.Google Scholar
  • Gurvich I , Ward A (2014) On the dynamic control of matching queues. Stochastic Systems 4(2):479–523.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Halaburda H , Jan Piskorski M , Yıldırım P (2018) Competing by restricting choice: The case of matching platforms. Management Sci. 64(8):3574–3594.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Horton JJ (2019) Buyer uncertainty about seller capacity: Causes, consequences, and a partial solution Management Sci. 65(8):3518–3540.Google Scholar
  • Hu M , Zhou Y (2018) Dynamic type matching. Rotman School of Management Working Paper 2592622, University of Toronto, Toronto.Google Scholar
  • Iyer K , Johari R , Sundararajan M (2014) Mean field equilibria of dynamic auctions with learning. Management Sci. 60(12):2949–2970.LinkGoogle Scholar
  • Julien B , Kennes J , King IP (2000) Bidding for labor. Rev. Econom. Dynam. 3(4):619–649.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Kircher P (2009) Efficiency of simultaneous search. J. Political Econom. 117(5):861–913.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Kushnir A (2013) Harmful signaling in matching markets. Games Econom. Behav. 80:209–218.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Lasry JM , Lions PL (2007) Mean field games. Japanese J. Math. 2(1):229–260.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Lee S , Niederle M , Kim HR , Kim WK (2011) Propose with a rose? Signaling in internet dating markets. Experiment. Econom. 18(4):731–755.Google Scholar
  • Moen ER (1997) Competitive search equilibrium. J. Political Econom. 105(2):385–411.Google Scholar
  • Mortensen DT (1982a) The matching process as a noncooperative bargaining game. McCall JJ, ed. The Economics of Information and Uncertainty (National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA), 233–258.Google Scholar
  • Mortensen DT (1982b) Property rights and efficiency in mating, racing, and related games. Amer. Econom. Rev. 72(5):968–979.Google Scholar
  • Pissarides CA (1984a) Efficient job rejection. Econom. J. 94:97–108.Google Scholar
  • Pissarides CA (1984b) Search intensity, job advertising, and efficiency. J. Labor Econom. 2(1):128–143.Google Scholar
  • Rogerson R , Shimer R , Wright R (2005) Search-theoretic models of the labor market: A survey. J. Econom. Literature 43(4):959–988.Google Scholar
  • Roth AE , Xing X (1997) Turnaround time and bottlenecks in market clearing: Decentralized matching in the market for clinical psychologists. J. Political Econom. 105(2):284–329.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Weintraub GY , Benkard CL , Van Roy B (2008) Markov perfect industry dynamics with many firms. Econometrica 76(6):1375–1411.CrossrefGoogle Scholar
  • Wright R , Kircher P , Julîen B , Guerrieri V (2020) Directed search: A guided tour. J. Econom. Literature. Forthcoming.Google Scholar
  • Ye P , Qian J , Chen J , Wu Ch , Zhou Y , De Mars S , Yang F , Zhang L (2018) Customized regression model for Airbnb dynamic pricing. Proc. 24th ACM SIGKDD Internat. Conf. Knowledge Discovery Data Mining (Association for Computing Machinery, New York), 932–940.Google Scholar
INFORMS site uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some are essential to make our site work; Others help us improve the user experience. By using this site, you consent to the placement of these cookies. Please read our Privacy Statement to learn more.