Endogenous matching in a market with heterogeneous principals and agents

International Journal of Game Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 587-619

  Serfes, Konstantinos ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assignment Game; Endogenous matching; Risk sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 40149089422     PISSN: 00207276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00182-007-0109-y     Document Type: Article

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