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Terence Tai-Leung Chong |
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''Two-sided Matching, Who Marries Whom? And what Happens upon Divorce?'' |
( 2006, Vol. 4 No.21 ) |
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Conventional two-sided matching game is a one-period game. In this note, we contribute to the existing literature by examining a multi-period two-sided matching problem allowing for the possibility of a divorce. We assume that the matching game is played repeatedly and the payoff matrix changes over time. It is shown that the rule of divorce will affect the equilibrium of a marriage game. An empirical implication of our result is that a country with a well-developed financial market will have a better marital outcome as compared to a less-developed country. |
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Manuscript Received : Apr 14 2006 | | Manuscript Accepted : Jun 12 2006 |
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