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Identification of Matching Complementarities: A Geometric Viewpoint

Structural Econometric Models

ISBN: 978-1-78350-052-9

Publication date: 13 December 2013

Abstract

We provide a geometric formulation of the problem of identification of the matching surplus function and we show how the estimation problem can be solved by the introduction of a generalized entropy function over the set of matchings.

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Acknowledgment

This research has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement No. 313699. Support from FiME, Laboratoire de Finance dés Marchés de l’Energie (www.fime-lab.org) is gratefully acknowledged. Gen Tang provided excellent research assistance. The author thanks a referee and the editors of this volume for comments that helped him improving this work.

Citation

Galichon, A. (2013), "Identification of Matching Complementarities: A Geometric Viewpoint", Structural Econometric Models (Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 31), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-9053(2013)0000032005

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