Identification of Matching Complementarities: A Geometric Viewpoint

Alfred Galichon (1)

1 ECON - Département d'économie (Sciences Po)

We provide a geometric formulation of the problem of identification of the matching surplus function and we show how the estimation problem can be solved by the introduction of a generalized entropy function over the set of matchings.

Mots clés: Matching; Marriage; Assignment

Domaines: Economies et finances

Alfred Galichon. Identification of Matching Complementarities: A Geometric Viewpoint. Advances in Econometrics, 2013, 31 (Structural Econometric Models), pp.141 - 151. ⟨10.1108/S0731-9053(2013)0000032005⟩. ⟨hal-03399507⟩