Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the games that are two-sided matching markets.
The phrase two-sided refers to the fact that agents in such markets belong, from the outset …

In the last decade, numerous student assignment systems have been redesigned using
input from economists in the large American cities and elsewhere. This article reviews some …

An atomic cross-chain swap is a distributed coordination task where multiple parties
exchange assets across multiple blockchains, for example, trading bitcoin for ether. An …

A strategy is obviously dominant if, for any deviation, at any information set where both
strategies first diverge, the best outcome under the deviation is no better than the worst …

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful
aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller …

A central issue in school choice is the design of a student assignment mechanism.
Education literature provides guidance for the design of such mechanisms but does not offer …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

Competitive adjustment processes in labor markets with perfect information but
heterogeneous firms and workers are studied. Generalizing results of Shapley and Shubik …

This paper proposes a new mechanism for combinatorial assignment—for example,
assigning schedules of courses to students—based on an approximation to competitive …

The organization of the labor market for medical interns and residents underwent a number
of changes before taking its present form in 1951. The record of these changes and the …