| Article ID: | iaor2009737 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 94 |
| End Page Number: | 98 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Batabyal Amitrajeet A., DeAngelo Gregory J. |
| Keywords: | matching, Marriage |
Researchers have paid scant attention to matchmaking from the perspective of a matchmaker. Therefore, our purpose is to analyze the circumstances under which a matchmaker optimally accepts or rejects individual matching assignments. We concentrate on two specific cases. In the first (second) case, our matchmaker's reservation profit is exogenous (endogenous).