Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de sciences économiques - Travaux et publications by Subject "Market design"

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  • Assigning Refugees to Landlords in Sweden: Stable Maximum Matchings 

    Andersson, Tommy; Ehlers, Lars (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2016-12)
    The member states of the European Union received 1.2 million first time asylum applications in 2015 (a doubling compared to 2014). Even if asylum will be granted for many of the refugees that made the journey to Europe, several obstacles for successful ...

  • Dynamic refugee matching 

    Andersson, Tommy; Ehlers, Lars; Martinello, Alessandro (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-10)
    Asylum seekers are often assigned to localities upon arrival using uninformed matching systems, which lead to inefficient and unfair allocations. This paper proposes an informed dynamic mechanism as an intuitive and easy-to-implement alternative. Our ...

  • Organizing time banks: Lessons from matching markets 

    Andersson, Tommy; Cseh, Agnes; Ehlers, Lars; Erlanson, Albin (Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2018-07)
    A time bank is a group of people that set up a common platform to trade services among themselves. There are several well-known problems associated with this type of time banking, e.g., high overhead costs and difficulties to identify feasible trades. ...