3 papers
econ.TH2020
Hiring from a pool of workers
Azar Abizada, Inácio Bó
In many countries and institutions around the world, the hiring of workers is made through open competitions. In them, candidates take tests and are ranked based on scores in exams…
econ.TH2020
Assignment Maximization
Mustafa Oğuz Afacan, Inácio Bó, Bertan Turhan
We evaluate the goal of maximizing the number of individuals matched to acceptable outcomes. We show that it implies incentive, fairness, and implementation impossibilities. Despit…
econ.TH2020
Pick-an-object Mechanisms
Inácio Bó, Rustamdjan Hakimov
We introduce a new family of mechanisms for one-sided matching markets, denoted pick-an-object (PAO) mechanisms. When implementing an allocation rule via PAO, agents are asked to p…