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Surplus efficiency of ex ante investments in matching markets with nontransferabilities

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Does a competitive equilibrium in a matching market provide adequate incentives for investments made before the market when utility is not perfectly transferable? In a one-sided market with a continuum of agents and finite types there is a constrained surplus efficient equilibrium, when a social planner can only affect investments but not payoffs nor matches, if an equal treatment property holds in equilibrium. Sufficient (but not full) utility transferability in a well defined sense implies this property. Ex post efficiency of payoffs (i.e., individual payoffs maximize the surplus in each match) alone is not sufficient to ensure that equilibrium investments maximize aggregate surplus.

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  • Thomas Gall, 2017. "Surplus efficiency of ex ante investments in matching markets with nontransferabilities," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 46(1), pages 51-78, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jogath:v:46:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s00182-015-0522-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s00182-015-0522-6
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    Keywords

    Matching; Assignment models; Investments; Nontransferable utility; Graph theory;
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    JEL classification:

    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities

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