Non-Stationary Search and Assortative Matching

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bonneton, Nicolas; Sandmann, Christopher
• 署名单位: Vanderbilt University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: ECONOMETRICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0012-9682
• DOI: 10.3982/ECTA22257
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 1635-1662
• 关键词: risk attitudes; job search; marriage; MODEL; INFORMATION; aversion; MARKET

摘要

This paper studies assortative matching in a non-stationary search-and-matching model with non-transferable payoffs. Non-stationarity entails that the number and characteristics of agents searching evolve endogenously over time. Assortative matching can fail in non-stationary environments under conditions for which Morgan (1995) and Smith (2006) show that it occurs in the steady state. This is due to the risk of worsening match prospects inherent to non-stationary environments. The main contribution of this paper is to derive the weakest sufficient conditions on payoffs for which matching is assortative. In addition to known steady state conditions, more desirable individuals must be less risk-averse in the sense of Arrow-Pratt.