Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5073042 Games and Economic Behavior 2007 15 Pages PDF
Abstract
I count the number of combinatorial choice rules that satisfy certain properties: Kelso-Crawford substitutability, and independence of irrelevant alternatives. The results are important for two-sided matching theory, where agents are modeled by combinatorial choice rules with these properties. The rules are a small, and asymptotically vanishing, fraction of all choice rules. But they are still exponentially more than the preference relations over individual agents-which has positive implications for the Gale-Shapley algorithm of matching theory.
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