Dynamic Matching in a Sharing Economy

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To be specific, I propose to study the question of how to match supply with demand in a sharing economy under inter-temporal uncertainty on both sides. What is typically involved in a sharing economy is a two-sided market consisting of the supply and demand side and an intermediary market maker. There are different types of supply and demand. Matching different types of supply and demand incurs different costs. The intermediary organization/platform serves to coordinate supply and demand of different types. For example, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in the United States allocates donated organs to patients in need of transplantation. Given prices of supply are irrelevant (e.g., in organ transplantation) or exogenously given, matching at the operational level can provide an efficient way for the platform to allocate crowdsourced supply across different demand types