Representing roommates' preferences with symmetric utilities

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rodrigues-Neto, Jose Alvaro
• 署名单位: Australian National University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2005.02.013
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 545-550
• 关键词: roommates; stable matching

摘要

In the context of the stable roommates problem, it is shown that acyclicity of preferences is equivalent to the existence of symmetric utility functions, i.e. the utility of agent i when matched with j is the same as j's utility when matched with i. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.