Econ 2620 Matching Market Design:

Syllabus

1.   Matching and Economic Engineering

2.   Two-Sided Matching:

a.   Two-Sided Matching Theory

b.   Recent Design of the NRMP Matching Mechanism*

c.    Many-to-one Matching with Complex Preferences

3.   Unraveling

a.   Unraveling of Appointment Dates in Matching Markets 

b.   Unraveling and Market Culture 

c.    A Model of Unraveling

4.   Discrete Resource Allocation

a.   House Allocation Problems and Housing Markets

b.   Design of Kidney Exchange Mechanisms

c.    Ordinally Efficient Lotteries in House Allocation Problems

d.   Matching Mechanisms for Schools

 

Homeworks

          HW1

          HW2

          HW3

HW4

HW5