Economics Working Papers
Publication Date
9-2020
Number
20005
Abstract
In many real-world matching applications, there are restrictions for institutions either on priorities of their slots or on the transferability of unfilled slots over others (or both). Motivated by the need in such real-life matching problems, this paper formulates a family of practical choice rules, slot-specific priorities with capacity transfers (SSPwCT). These practical rules invoke both slot-specific priorities structure and transferability of vacant slots. We show that the cumulative offer mechanism (COM) is stable, strategy-proof and respects improvements with regards to SSPwCT choice rules. Transferring the capacity of one more unfilled slot, while all else is constant, leads to strategy-proof Pareto improvement of the COM. Following Kominer’ s (2020) formulation, we also provide comparative static results for expansion of branch capacity and addition of new contracts in the SSPwCT framework. Our results have implications for resource allocation problems with diversity considerations.
JEL Classification
C78, D47
Version History
Original Release Date: February 2020
Revision: April 2020
Latest Revision: September 2020
Departments
Department of Economics, Iowa State University
File Format
application/pdf
Length
22 pages
Recommended Citation
Avataneo, Michelle and Turhan, Bertan, "Slot-specific Priorities with Capacity Transfers" (2020). Economics Working Papers: Department of Economics, Iowa State University. 20005.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_workingpapers/100
