Identification in matching games

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fox, Jeremy T.
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1759-7323
• DOI: 10.3982/QE3
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 203-254
• 关键词: Matching; identification; complementarities; two-sided matching; assignment games; vertical relationships

摘要

I study a many-to-many, two-sided, transferable utility matching game. Consider data on matches or relationships between agents but not on the choice set of each agent. I investigate what economic parameters can be learned from data on equilibrium matches and agent characteristics. Features of a production function, which gives the surplus from a match, are nonparametrically identified. In particular, the ratios of complementarities from multiple pairs of inputs are identified. Also, the production function is identified up to a positive monotonic transformation.