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Screening in a Matching Market

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  • Roman Inderst

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Contract design under incomplete information is often analysed in a bilaterally monopolistic setting. If the informed party's reservation value does not depend on its private information (its type), it is a standard result that the uninformed side offers "low" types distorted contracts to reduce the information rent left to "high" types. We challenge this result by embedding contract design in a matching market environment. We consider a market where players meet pairwise and where, in each match, either side may be chosen to make a take-it-or-leave-it offer. As frictions become sufficiently low, we find that the set of equilibria is independent of whether there is complete or incomplete information. In particular, all contracts are free of distortions.

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  • Roman Inderst, 2001. "Screening in a Matching Market," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 68(4), pages 849-868.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:restud:v:68:y:2001:i:4:p:849-868.
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