AEAweb: AEA Sessions in 2008 ASSA Conference

These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)

Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM

Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM

Session: Matching Markets (AEA)

Presiding: Lones Smith (University of Michigan)

What Matchings Can Be Stable? The Testable Implications of Matching Theory.
Federico Echenique (California Institute of Technology)
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Interviewing in Two-Sided Matching Markets
Robin Lee (Harvard Business School)
Michael Schwarz (Yahoo! Research and NBER)
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Two-Sided Matching with Interdependent Values
Michael Ostrovsky (Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
Archishman Chakraborty (Baruch College, CUNY)
Alessandro Citanna (HEC – Paris)
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Contagious Matching Games
Lones Smith (University of Michigan)

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