Arbeitspapier

Market Structure and Matching with Contracts

Ostrovsky [10] develops a theory of stability for a model of matching in exogenously given networks. For this model a generalization of pairwise stability, chain stability, can always be satisfied as long as agents’ preferences satisfy same side substitutability and cross side complementarity. Given this preference domain I analyze the interplay between properties of the network structure and (cooperative) solution concepts. The main structural condition is an acyclicity notion that rules out the implementation of trading cycles. It is shown that this condition and the restriction that no pair of agents can sign more than one contract with each other are jointly necessary and sufficient for (i) the equivalence of group and chain stability, (ii) the core stability of chain stable networks, (iii) the efficiency of chain stable networks, (iv) the existence of a group stable network, and (v) the existence of an efficient and individually stable network. These equivalences also provide a rationale for chain stability in the unrestricted model. The (more restrictive) conditions under which chain stability coincides with the core are also characterized.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Bonn Econ Discussion Papers ; No. 02/2010

Classification
Wirtschaft
Cooperative Games
Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
Subject
Matching with Contracts
Network Structure
Chain Stability
Acyclicity
Group Stability
Core
Efficiency
Netzwerk
Nichtkooperatives Spiel
Matching
Marktstruktur
Gleichgewichtsstabilität
Vertragstheorie
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Westkamp, Alexander
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2010

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Westkamp, Alexander
  • University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)

Time of origin

  • 2010

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