Two-Sided Markets Example
Prepared by:
Joseph Malkevitch
Department of Mathematics and Computer Studies
York College (CUNY)
Jamaica, New York
email:
malkevitch@york.cuny.edu
web page:
http://york.cuny.edu/~malk
4 men rank 4 women without ties
1 st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | |
m1 | w1 | w2 | w3 | w4 |
m2 | w2 | w1 | w4 | w3 |
m3 | w1 | w4 | w2 | w3 |
m4 | w2 | w3 | w4 | w1 |
4 women rank 4 men without ties
1st |
2nd | 3rd | 4th | |
w1 | m4 | m3 | m2 | m1 |
w2 | m4 | m3 | m1 | m2 |
w3 | m2 | m1 | m4 | m3 |
w4 | m4 | m2 | m3 | m1 |
What are reasonable ways for the men and woman to be paired?
Here we are assuming people don't have the option of NOT being paired.