Article ID: | iaor20117394 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 231 |
End Page Number: | 233 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Boudreau James W |
Keywords: | simulation: applications |
This note shows by means of simulation experiments that although two‐sided matching markets can always converge to a stable outcome via a decentralized process of matching and rematching, the most likely outcome need not be the median matching or a minimum‐choice‐count matching, whether or not the two coincide.