A collection of papers dedicated to David Gale on the occasion of his 85th birthday

摘要

Over the last 50 years David Gale has played a leading role in developing some of the themes of fundamental importance to economic theory. This volume is a tribute to his creative capacity and is dedicated to his 85th birthday. It only reflects a small part of his work in the following important areas of Game theory: the stable matching problem, auction theory, housing markets, combinatorial games and economics of fair division. In all these areas Gale has contributed with papers that have had a lasting impact. His 1962, "College Admissions and the stability of marriage", co-authored by Lloyd Shapley, for example, has spawned a significant theory, known in the literature as the theory of Matching models, which has been applied in the organization of a variety of markets. His contribution to the foundations of this theory was made through several other papers. Gale and Sotomayor (1985), for example, pre-printed in 1983, provided a survey of the existent theory for the Marriage and College Admissions models, complementing it with new results, providing new and shorter proofs for results already known in the literature, extending them to the general Marriage model and to the College Admissions model without imposing any restriction on the completeness of the list of acceptable partners.