Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Patrick Legros
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: Legros
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Author-Workplace-Name: ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Author-Name: Andrew F. Newman
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Newman	
Author-Email: afnewman@bu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute for Economic Development, Boston University
Title:  Beauty is a Beast, Frog is a Prince: Assortative Matching with Nontransferabilities
Abstract: We present sufficient conditions for monotone matching in environments where
utility is not fully transferable between partners. These conditions involve complementarity
in types not only of the total payoff to a match, as in the transferable
utility case, but also in the degree of transferability between partners. We apply our
conditions to study some models of risk sharing and incentive problems, deriving
new results for predicted matching patterns in those contexts
Length: 40 pages
Creation-Date: 2002-05
Revision-Date: 2004-11
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File-URL:http://www.bu.edu/econ/ied/dp/papers/dp149Newman.pdf
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Number: dp-149
Classification-JEL: C78, D13, J41
Keywords: Assortative matching, nontransferable utility, risk sharing, interhousehold
allocation.
Handle: RePEc:bos:iedwpr:dp-149