Discussion Papers in Economics

Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

#04-11:

Marriage Markets with Externalities.
Prabal Roy Chowdhury

Abstract

This paper examines a marriage market with externality. We first develop an appropriate notion of stability for this market, called E-stability. We provide an example to show that an E-stable outcome need not exist. We then derive conditions under which an E-stable outcome exists.

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