Dynamic Matching in a Sharing Economy

具体而言，我建议研究在共享经济中，在双方都存在跨期不确定性的情况下，如何使供给与需求相匹配。共享经济通常涉及的是一个双边市场，由供需方和中介做市商组成。有不同类型的供应和需求。匹配不同类型的供应和需求会产生不同的成本。中介组织/平台用于协调不同类型的供应和需求。例如，美国的器官共享联合网络（UNOS）将捐赠的器官分配给需要移植的患者。鉴于供应价格无关紧要（例如，在器官移植中）或外源性给予，操作层面的匹配可以为平台提供一种有效的方式，在不同的需求类型之间分配众包供应

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