A Graph Theoretic Approach to Markets for Indivisible Goods

Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

No 16284, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Many important markets, such as the housing market, involve goods that are both indivisible and of budgetary significance. We introduce new graph theoretic techniques ideally suited to analyzing such markets. In this paper and its companion (Caplin and Leahy [2010]), we use these techniques to fully characterize the comparative static properties of these markets and to identify algorithms for computing equilibria.

JEL-codes: C63 D40 E1 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-08
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Published as A Graph Theoretic Approach to Markets for Indivisible Goods (with Andrew Caplin), Journal of Mathematical Economics 52, May 2014, 112-122.

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