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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Boston mechanism"”.
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Essays in Market Design
This thesis analyzes existing allocation mechanisms and proposes new mechanisms for two-sided matching markets, with a particular focus on the role played by diversity preferences and affirmative action. In the first chapter, "Diversity Preferences, Affirmative Action and Choice Rules'', I …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Contests and Matching
… chapter studies the optimal college admissions mechanism where students are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
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Three essays on matching over characteristics
… not always well met with traditional matching mechanisms where agents directly submit a ranking of agents on the other side of the market. In Chapter 1, I study one approach to dealing with these challenges that, while used in some real world matching markets, has not received much attention in …