Core-selection is a crucial property of rules in the literature of resource allocation. It is also
desirable, from the perspective of mechanism design, to address the incentive of agents to …

Abstract Top Trading Cycles is widely regarded as the preferred method of assigning
students to schools when the designer values efficiency over fairness. However, Top …

In this paper we study the exchange of indivisible objects where agents' possible
preferences over the objects are strict and share a common structure among all of them …

The existing priority-based object allocation literature restricts objects' priorities to be
deterministic. However, agents might be probabilistically prioritized ex-ante, for instance …

In the literature of two-sided matching, each agent is assumed to have a complete
preference. In practice, however, each agent initially has only partial information and needs …

In two-sided many-to-one matching markets some mechanisms induce worse allocations for
one side of the market following a capacity reduction on the other side. This prediction …

Abstract In the United States, schools with more students receive more federal funds. Yet a
harsher consequence of the low enrollment is school closure. Schools, therefore, have a …

This thesis contains three chapters related to the microeconomic interactions in markets. The
first paper deals with markets with many participants, and in which monetary transfers are …