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MatchingModelsforPreference-sensitiveGroupPurchasing

Matchingbuyersandsellersisoneofthemostfundamentalproblemsineconomicsandmarketdesign.Aninterestingvariantofthematchingproblemariseswhenself-interestedbuyerscometogetherinordertoinducesellerstoofferquantityorvolumediscounts,asiscommoninbuyingconsortia,andmorerecentlyintheconsumergroupcouponingspace(e.g.,Groupon).Weconsiderageneralmodelofthisprobleminwhichagrouporbuyingconsortiumisfacedwithvolumediscountoffersfrommultiplevendors,butgroupmembershavedistinctpreferencesfordifferentvendorofferings.Unlikesomerecentformulationsofmatchinggamesthatinvolvequantitydiscounts,thecombinationofvaryingpreferencesanddiscountscanrenderthecoreofthematchinggameempty,inboththetransferableandnontransferableutilitysense.Thus,insteadofcoalitionalstability,weproposeseveralformsofNashstabilityundervariousepistemicandtransfer/paymentassumptions.Weinvestigatethecomputationofbuyer-welfaremaximizingmatchingsandshowtheexistenceoftransfers(subsidizedprices)ofaparticularlydesirableformthatsupportstablematchings.Wealsostudyanontransferableutilitymodel,showingthatstablematchingsexist;andwedevelopavariantoftheprobleminwhichbuyersprovideasimplepreferenceorderingover“deals”ratherthanspecificvaluations—amodelthatisespeciallyattractiveintheconsumerspace—whichalsoadmitsstablematchings.Computationalexperimentsdemonstratetheefficacyandvalueofourapproach.

CategoriesandSubjectDescriptors:I.2.11[DistributedArtificialIntelligence]:MultiagentSystems;J.4

[ComputerApplications]:SocialandBehavioralSciences—Economics

GeneralTerms:Algorithms,Economics,Theory

AdditionalKeyWordsandPhrases:stablematching,preferences,demandaggregation,grouppurchasing,volumediscounts,dailydeals,cooperativegames.

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