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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games with an Application to Venture Capital / Jeremy T. Fox, David H. Hsu, Chenyu Yang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Jeremy T.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18168.
- NBER working paper series no. w18168
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2012.
- Summary:
- Agents in two-sided matching games vary in characteristics that are unobservable in typical data on matching markets. We investigate the identification of the distribution of unobserved characteristics using data on who matches with whom. In full generality, we consider many-to-many matching and matching with trades. The distribution of match-specific unobservables cannot be fully recovered without information on unmatched agents, but the distribution of a combination of unobservables, which we call unobserved complementarities, can be identified. Using data on unmatched agents restores identification. We estimate the contribution of observables and unobservable complementarities to match production in venture capital investments in biotechnology and medical firms.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2012.
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