Coordination and Operation of Two-Sided Matching Markets: Theory and Evidence

该项目包括两个不同但相关的路线， 调查 第一个是一个主要的实证调查， 精英阶层的各种入门级就业市场 专业人士组织。 的动机 调查提供了初步证据， 工人和公司都是高度异质的， 一些重要的特征彼此相同， 一般的行为完全不同，需要不同类型的 分析，比市场涉及相当同质的公司， 工人 具体而言，该项目分析了美国市场 对于实习生和住院医生来说， 在全国不同地区工作的医生 英国的医疗服务;法国的医疗服务体系 大学教授获得职位;毕业生市场 东京大学的研究;以及 美国顶尖法学院和商学院的毕业生。 第二条研究路线主要是理论性的， 由三部分组成。 第一部分探讨了为什么各种 的相关双边匹配模型具有类似的性质， 尽管它们需要不同的假设。 第二部分 开发了具有不完整信息的匹配模型， 更适合于真实的世界问题。 第三部分 包括模拟和探索 正在进行的实证研究。 这个雄心勃勃的项目应该得到支持，因为 它将提供的见解，在这样重要的性能 劳动力市场，如医生、律师和企业 学校毕业生。 这项研究还将改善匹配 理论 这是有价值的，因为许多不同的经济 问题可以表示为匹配问题。

This project consists of two distinct but related lines of investigation. The first is a largely empirical investigation of the ways in which various entry level job markets for elite professionals are organized. The motivation for the investigation is provided by preliminary evidence that markets in which both workers and firms are highly heterogeneous may have some important features in common with one another, and may in general behave quite differently, and require different kinds of analysis, than markets involving fairly homogeneous firms and workers. Specifically, the project analyzes the American market for interns and residents, several parallel markets for beginning physicians which operate in the different regions of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom; the system by which French university professors obtain positions; the market for graduates of the University of Tokyo; and aspects of the markets for graduates of top American law and business schools. The second line of research is primarily theoretical, and consists of three parts. The first part explores why a variety of related two-sided matching models have similar properties, although they require different assumptions. The second part develops matching models with incomplete information that are more appropriate for real world problems. The third part consists of modelling and exploring the phenomena uncovered in the ongoing empirical investigations. This ambitious project should be supported because of the insights it will provide in the performance of such important labor markets as those for physicians, lawyers and business school graduates. The research will also improve matching theory. This is valuable because many different economic problems can be represented as matching problems.