Two Sides Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis.

First Edition of Two-Sided Matching; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Alvin Roth

Two Sides Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis.

ROTH, Alvin E. and Marilda A. Oliveira Sotomayor. Foreword by Robert Aumann.

Item Number: 101723

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Roth on the front free endpaper, “For James Alvin E. Roth.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Robert Aumann.

Two-sided matching provides a model of search processes such as those between firms and workers in labor markets or between buyers and sellers in auctions. This book gives a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching. The focus of the book is on the stability of outcomes, on the incentives that different rules of organization give to agents, and on the constraints that these incentives impose on the ways such markets can be organized. The results for this wide range of related models and matching situations help clarify which conclusions depend on particular modeling assumptions and market conditions, and which are robust over a wide range of conditions. "This book chronicles one of the outstanding success stories of the theory of games, a story in which the authors have played a major role: the theory and practice of matching markets....The authors are to be warmly congratulated for this fine piece of work, which is quite unique in the game-theoretic literature" (Robert Aumann).

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