Title
Decentralized matching markets with endogenous salaries
Abstract
In a Shapley–Shubik assignment problem with a supermodular output matrix, we consider games in which each firm makes a take-it-or-leave-it salary offer to one applicant, and a match is made only when the offer is accepted by her. We consider both one-shot and multistage games. In either game, we show that there can be many equilibrium salary vectors which are higher or lower than the minimum competitive salary vector. If we exclude artificial equilibria, applicants' equilibrium salary vectors are bounded above by the minimal competitive salary vector, while firms' equilibrium payoff vectors are bounded below by the payoff vector under the minimum competitive salary vector. This suggests that adopting the minimum competitive salary vector as the equilibrium outcome in decentralized markets does not have a strong justification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.geb.2008.01.005
Games and Economic Behavior
Keywords
Field
DocType
C71,C72,C78,J20,J30
Welfare economics,Economics,Mathematical economics,Salary,Matrix (mathematics),Microeconomics,Bounded set,Assignment problem,Stochastic game,Bounded function
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
1
0899-8256
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.59
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hideo Konishi112635.99
Margarita Sapozhnikov230.59