Kidney exchange with immunosuppressants

Eun Jeong Heo, Sunghoon Hong () and Youngsub Chun
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Sunghoon Hong: Korea Institute of Public Finance

Economic Theory, 2021, vol. 72, issue 1, No 1, 19 pages

Abstract: Abstract Recent developments in immunosuppressive protocols have enabled patients to receive kidney transplants from biologically incompatible donors. We propose to use immunosuppressants as a part of kidney exchange program. We introduce the “pairwise cycles and chains (PCC)” solution and show that it is Pareto efficient, monotonic, and maximizes the number of compatible transplants and the total number of transplants at the same time among all monotonic matchings.

Keywords: Kidney exchange; Immunosuppressants; Pareto efficiency; Monotonicity; Maximality; Pairwise cycles and chains solution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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