Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange / Itai Ashlagi, Alvin E. Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashlagi, Itai.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Roth, Alvin E.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16720.

NBER working paper series no. w16720

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has already started to be observed.

We show that the cost of making it individually rational for hospitals to participate fully is low in almost every large exchange pool (although the worst-case cost is very high), while the cost of failing to guarantee individually rational allocations could be large, in terms of lost transplants. We also identify an incentive compatible mechanism.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2011.