Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
We develop a general procedure to construct pairwise meeting processes characterized by two features. First, in each period the process maximizes the number of matches in the population. Second, over time agents meet everybody else exactly once. We call this type of meetings "absolute strangers." Our methodological contribution to economics is to offer a simple procedure to construct a type of decentralized trading environments usually employed in both theoretical and experimental economics. In particular, we demonstrate how to make use of the mathematics of Latin squares to enrich the modeling of matching economies.
Recommended Citation
Aliprantis, C.D., G. Camera and D. Puzzello (2007). Bilateral matching with Latin squares. Journal of Mathematical Economics 43, 99–114. doi: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2006.10.001
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1
Copyright
Elsevier
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Mathematical Economics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Mathematical Economics, volume 43 (2007). DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2006.10.001
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