What Have We Learned from Market Design?

Roth, A. E. (2008). What Have We Learned from Market Design?. The Economic Journal, 118(527), 285-310.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2008

DOI

10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02121.x

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02121.x

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Primes

• Carrying Capacity
  • In economics and platform design, matching capacity, liquidity ceilings, and traffic volume before flow collapse all show the same signature.

    This sourceArgues that marketplaces must provide thickness while overcoming the congestion that thickness brings; markets work well only when thick, uncongested, and safe — supplying the matching-capacity / liquidity-ceiling-before-flow-collapse signature.

Mechanisms

• Decentralized Volunteer Matching
  • It is a matching market — its value rises with the liquidity of both sides

    This sourceExplains that a marketplace works better when it attracts enough potential participants to be sufficiently thick.

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