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The role of a matchmaker in buyer-vendor interactions

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  • Linyuan Lu
  • Matus Medo
  • Yi-Cheng Zhang

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We consider a simple market where a vendor offers multiple variants of a certain product and preferences of both the vendor and potential buyers are heterogeneous and possibly even antagonistic. Optimization of the joint benefit of the vendor and the buyers turns the toy market into a combinatorial matching problem. We compare the optimal solutions found with and without a matchmaker, examine the resulting inequality between the market participants, and study the impact of correlations on the system.

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  • Linyuan Lu & Matus Medo & Yi-Cheng Zhang, 2009. "The role of a matchmaker in buyer-vendor interactions," Papers 0902.0504, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2009.
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    2. Tilles, Paulo F.C. & Ferreira, Fernando F. & Francisco, Gerson & Pereira, Carlos de B. & Sarti, Flavia M., 2011. "A Markovian model market—Akerlof’s lemons and the asymmetry of information," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 390(13), pages 2562-2570.
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