ON ONE-SIDED VERSUS 2-SIDED MATCHING GAMES

We consider the ''one-sided matching'' models of Shapley and Scarf and Tijs et al. and a one-sided analogue of Demange and Gale's two-sided matching market. We analyze these games by considering each trader as both ''buyer'' and ''seller'' and seeing whether results carry over fr om the two-sided matching literature. For the most part, they do in th e transferable utility (TU) case but not in the nontransferable utilit y model. Our results in the TU case parallel work done by Shapley and Shubik for two-sided markets. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.