Publications

04 Feb 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda

December 2024
Article

Respect for Improvements and Comparative Statics in Matching Markets

By: Scott Duke Kominers

One of the oldest results in the theory of two-sided matching is the entry comparative static, which shows that under the Gale–Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, adding a new agent to one side of the market makes all the agents on the other side weakly... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Market Design

25 Jun 2009
News

Book Review: Match Day by Brian Eule

July 2017
Teaching Note

Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?

By: John J-H Kim

Teaching Note for HBS No. 316-138. View Details

Purchase

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

participants wondered what the endeavor interrupted in local agencies as it began to fulfill its mandate of gathering data. "I don't believe there were no ripple effects," said one executive. Public trust and consistency of data architecture: Does government... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

30 Apr 2013
News

Price Matching Criticized From Wal-Mart to Toys ‘R’ Us

2025
Working Paper

CEO-Firm Matches and Productivity in 42 Countries

By: Amanda Dahlstrand, Dávid László, Helena Schweiger, Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We develop a parsimonious measure of CEO time use that allows us to differentiate CEOs into... View Details

Keywords: Training; Management Skills; Economic Growth; Leadership Development

May 2005
Article

The New York City High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Education

Article

Earnings Dynamics and Measurement Error in Matched Survey and Administrative Data

By: Dean Hyslop and Wilbur Townsend

This article analyzes earnings dynamics and measurement error using a matched longitudinal sample of individuals’ survey and administrative earnings. In line with previous literature, the reported differences are characterized by both persistent and transitory factors.... View Details

Keywords: Earnings Dynamics; Measurement Error; Panel Data; Validation Study; Business Earnings; Measurement and Metrics; Forecasting and Prediction

Register to Read

January 1990 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Competition and Compatibility: Mix and Match

15 Oct 2012
News

Roth Earns Nobel for Matching Theory

Keywords: Professor Alvin Roth; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2010
Chapter

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic enrollment with an employer match. This raises a question about how effective... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Compensation and Benefits

February 1985
Article

Common and Conflicting Interests in Two-Sided Matching Markets

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Markets

March 1991
Article

Incentives in Two-Sided Matching with Random Stable Mechanisms

By: A. E. Roth and J. H. Vande Vate

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives

May 1997
Teaching Note

Managing Product Development: Matching Technology with Context, Instructor's Note

By: Marco Iansiti

This overview to Managing Product Development (MPD) both previews course material, cases, exercises, and lectures--and provides its conceptual and academic underpinnings. Additionally, this note links these materials to the activities students will be undertaking in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Product Development; Knowledge Management; Performance; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Opportunities; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

Purchase

25 Jun 2019
Cold Call Podcast

In the Platform Economy, Upwork Searches for Better Matches in the Cloud

Keywords: Re: David B. Yoffie; Web Services

2019
Working Paper

Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon

We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-deﬁned... View Details

Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web

01 Jul 2004
News

战略配称核心优势 (Strategy Matches the Key Advantage)

1986
Article

A Note on Job Matching with Budget Constraints

By: S. J. Mongell and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting