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AF Bostäder’s house allocation problem

Kratz, Jörgen LU (2012) NEKN01 20121
Department of Economics
Abstract
This paper evaluates the practicality and efficiency of different solutions to the
house allocation problem faced by the company providing housing for students
at Lund University. Both static and dynamic mechanisms are considered. A
series of simulations show that the problem could be solved more efficiently by
altering the booking period length of the currently used mechanism, and even more
efficiently by adopting some variant of the top trading cycles mechanism developed
by Abdulkadiroglu and Sönmez (1999).
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author
Kratz, Jörgen LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKN01 20121
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
house allocation, mechanism design, top trading cycles, experiment, AF Bostäder
language
English
id
3050974
date added to LUP
2012-09-27 11:28:53
date last changed
2012-09-27 11:28:53
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  abstract     = {{This paper evaluates the practicality and efficiency of different solutions to the
house allocation problem faced by the company providing housing for students
at Lund University. Both static and dynamic mechanisms are considered. A
series of simulations show that the problem could be solved more efficiently by
altering the booking period length of the currently used mechanism, and even more
efficiently by adopting some variant of the top trading cycles mechanism developed
by Abdulkadiroglu and Sönmez (1999).}},
  author       = {{Kratz, Jörgen}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{AF Bostäder’s house allocation problem}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}