Master 2023/2024

Basic Theory of Two-sided Matching

Type: Elective course (Economics and Economic Policy)

Area of studies: Economics

Delivered by: Department of Theoretical Economics

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 2 year, 1 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Behrang Kamali Shahdadi

Master’s programme: Economics and Economic policy

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The goal of the class is to introduce students to formal modeling in two-sided matching and suggest some interesting directions for future research. We will discuss decentralized matching markets (e.g., the marriage market), their stable matching properties and mechanisms to find this stable matching. Furthermore, We study the shortfall of these stable mechanisms. At the end, we study the matching markets that involve contracts between two sides at the time of the match.