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When Al makes an offer to Betty that Betty observes and rejects, Al may “lose face”. This loss of face (LoF) may cost Al utility, either directly or through reputation effects. This can lead to fewer offers and inefficiency in the context of bilateral matching problems. Thomas Gall discusses his a simple model with asymmetric information, a continuous signal of an individual’s binary type, and a linear marriage production function.

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This video describes a presentation about a research paper focusing on "matching markets" or "marriage markets," which involve how people form pairs or match up. The authors, Macau and the speaker, express their interest in exploring how human behavior, particularly fears of rejection and loss of face, affect the efficiency of these markets. They argue that traditional economic models often overlook these emotional factors, which can lead to inefficiencies and reduced matching activity—particularly impacting labor markets where shyness can hinder job applications and offers.

The research employs game-theoretic modeling to analyze the behavior of individuals in matching scenarios. Players in the model receive signals about each other's value (or type) before deciding whether to propose a match, with the authors suggesting that players will have "threshold strategies" for making these decisions. However, when loss of face is factored in, players may become more conservative and picky, which ultimately reduces overall matching activity and leads to potential economic consequences like increased unemployment.

Additionally, the paper discusses the implications of asymmetric loss of face, where one side of the market may be more affected than the other, and proposes potential policy measures to mitigate these effects, such as conditionally anonymous environments for proposals to alleviate fears of rejection.

The research finds parallels with real-life platforms like Tinder, which use algorithms that address these issues effectively. The authors emphasize the need for empirical studies to validate their theoretical findings, exploring how personal shyness and loss of face influence matchmaking and access to partners in various contexts. Ultimately, the study aims to highlight the significance of behavioral aspects in economic theories of matching markets.

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Working on the paper, losing face

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because, we are interested in

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what we call matching markets

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or marriage markets, which sounds an awful lot more

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interesting, to non economist than industrial economists

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because for economists,

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this just means we're looking at markets

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where people meet essentially.

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And, they basically form pairs of groups.

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One of the more relevant, applications of

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that is the labor market where firms and workers meet

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and the firms are represented by, for instance,

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hiring committees, the workers.

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And obviously it is important

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for economic outcomes in the aggregate for,

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the persons involved, how efficient these meetings

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and matchings and assignments occur.

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And there's an awful lot of

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of work being done on search matching.

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Nobel prizes have been awarded

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and, a number of other interviewees have been talking

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about this, but, Macau

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and I were a bit, surprised that,

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all of these studies basically have not

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entirely looked at how human behavior shaped,

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and that's where the marriage market name is,

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is actually helpful because when we look at marriage market

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and where people meet,

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and then sometimes marriage a certain hesitance

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to ask the other other person out

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to basically reveal that you're interested in her or him.

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And, that is not something that an economic agents in,

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in our modeling would usually do.

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We are looking at rational agents

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and they're not inhibited by emotions.

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And then we were basically thinking about this is something

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that every one of us experiences being shy about asking

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somebody because we might be rejected.

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Um, and nobody has ever looked at that.

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So we thought this, this, this might really impede

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the workings of markets once we kind

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of like put this behavioral issue in.

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And that was basically how we came to do our work.

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And micro theorists by training ha have no,

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basically branched out and everything else.

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Um, but this was essentially back to my roots

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and we were basically employing theoretical research

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that builds on obviously, other contributions

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that other people have made, lab field experiments,

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data and so on.

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But mostly this is a theory paper where we apply

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game theoretic modeling in order to derive conclusions

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and predictions how these market will turn out when we admit

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for behavioral issues like fear of rejection, loss of face,

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the benefit of having a, a mathematical model in order

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to attacking these type of questions is essentially

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that we can measure how good solutions are.

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Um, by employing game

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Theoretical models, we can use the whole tool kits in

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economics that allows us to evaluate different policies

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or different solutions by their welfare that they generate.

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So that is the, the, the good thing about being theoretical.

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Oh, I love to talk about game theory.

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I ask a professor to talk about game three. I never stop.

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Um, so what we did is essentially we used some,

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asymmetric information game between,

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players on two sides of a market.

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And for convenience we labeled that male and female

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because the whole idea

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and the intuition comes from a marriage market.

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And it's not wrong to interpret our model as one

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of a marriage market where females and males meet,

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and then they basically have a look at each other

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and decide whether or not to propose game.

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Theoretically, this is modeled by private information

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of the players about their own type.

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They do not have information about the

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type of the other player.

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The types are important

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because we derive utility wealth from the type of the other.

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So we would quite like to match with the player

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of the other market side who has a higher type,

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has more value to us.

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That's why types are important.

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But we can't observe the types,

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we don't wear 'em on our foreheads.

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Um, we might wear the right type of watch,

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for instance on the other hand.

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So when we meet in our model, each of the player

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that meet receives a signal about the other player.

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And the signal is basically all kinds of information

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that we can basic digest

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and use to basically generate an idea

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about the other's type.

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So this is about information essentially

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before we meet, we have

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no specific information about the other player.

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When we meet, we receive a signal about that player's value

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for us and whether we would like to marry them essentially.

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Um, and that's essentially the model.

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And then we derived essentially the optimal actions

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and the optimal strategies of the player

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to remain game theory speed.

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And that basically means characterizing what kind

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of signals would induce a player

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to accept the other party.

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And that basically is the, the, the model we look

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for in Nash equilibrium,

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where both players basically behave in a way that's optimal

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for them, given that the other player also behaves in a way

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that's optimal, optimal for them given the

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other players' actions and strategies.

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The interesting thing about this is essentially

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that in the outcome our players use

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what we call threshold strategies.

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So they get a signal about the other player

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and if that signal is good enough,

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you go all in and propose.

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And yes, I would quite like to kind of continue with you,

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But we don't have loss of phase.

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Um, but yields sufficient outcomes.

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We are processing information

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and based on the information

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that we have, we make a decision.

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And this is mutual.

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So both of the players will make mutually efficient decision

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and the right quote unquote matches will form

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With loss of phase.

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We have a bit of a problem

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because players are inhibited,

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they're getting more conservative,

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they're getting more picky, in particular the high types.

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They will now raise the threshold that they require

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to be convinced of the other players worthiness.

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So they're getting more picky.

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And that means overall matching activity, goes down.

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So there are fewer successful matches in the economy.

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So if you translate that into labor markets, if loss

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of face played a role in the labor market in particular

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for employees who are looking for another post, then

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you have a direct consequence for unemployment

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because there's too little matching activities going on.

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Too few applications are stands out.

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Um, and we also find some interesting side effects

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that in particular when you have asymmetric loss of face

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that is one of the market side is affected

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more by the loss of faith.

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It could be it could come from the procedure.

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One market side has to, has to propose

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and the other one has to say yes or no for instance.

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And that means essentially they are, they don't have to kind

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of expose themselves.

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Um, then basically anything can happen.

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It depends a lot on the particular market,

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on the particular, situation

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and which kind of agents come together.

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So it could be that the market side

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who has the loss of face is actually better off

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because they become more, more, more picky.

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And that loss is actually born by the market side

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who doesn't have loss of face.

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So not having loss of face

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is not necessarily good for you.

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It if enough other people have it.

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Um, and then finally I think that is probably taking,

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taking us into policy territory.

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What can we do about it if it really exists?

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Um, we also consider a framework which we call conditionally

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anonymous environment.

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And that is basically a, a simple trick.

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We only reveal that, you have

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accepted a potential match to that potential match

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if the potential match in return has accepted you.

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So if you accept your match, reject

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your potential match will never learn

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that you would have had them.

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And that means essentially that sort of loss of faith

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where you suffer from revealing your interest.

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You believe that this could be a match, where this

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Loss of faith, ca cannot occur

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because the other party never learns

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that you've basically exposed yourself.

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Um, and that environment, we get the efficient outcome.

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That means essentially in matching markets on marriage

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markets where we have loss of faith, simple algorithms

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that act as intermediaries, that basically process

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accepts and rejects

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and only flag if a mutually acceptable matter has been found

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would solve the problem.

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And to our surprise,

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the market had already solved the problem

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because we found that the Tinder platform

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was based basically on this particular algorithm.

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So when we did the research, that was quite a few years ago.

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In particular when we started the research, Tinder wasn't

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as well known as it is now.

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Um, so, we were quite pleased to learn that,

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actually our, our research had a counterpart in the real

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world and, and a pretty relevant one.

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But of course you can also think about, other type of,

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of matching markets.

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Think of speed dating between innovators.

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Uh, think about venture capitalists,

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or think about researchers who are trying to kind

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of find partners on projects.

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You don't want to go out expose yourself.

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Oh, I really want to work with you only

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to find, no thank you.

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That was very interesting, but no, thank you.

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Um, so that is kind of the type of policy

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or real world application that we thought might be.

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The one thing that we probably need to deliver on, is

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to produce some empirical backup

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for our theoretical research.

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So what we would quite like to do permitting funding

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and all other things, is

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to take this research into the field or into the lab,

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and I think probably the field might be the place test it

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out, where we then could essentially, expose

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experimental participants to various environments

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and to see to what,

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what are the quantitative effects of loss of base?

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Does it exist? Is it important enough

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to really inhibit matchmaking, inhibit

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new connections being formed?

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Um, what's the percentage of connections that are lost due

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to personal shyness?

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Are different people more or less affected by loss of faith?

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Because there's also an inequality aspect or angle here.

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Uh, if particular groups in the population are more prone

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to loss of phase than others, then they might lose out

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or given our a non,

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asymmetric environment results, they might even win.

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So we, we might have a, we, we might have a problem in terms

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of access to other,

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we might have a problem in terms of access to partners

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and equal access to partners due to loss of phase.

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Um, so this is basically what we would think is the,

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our first priority.

"Exploring Behavioral Influences in Matching Markets: The Role of Loss of Face"

00:00:00 - Working on the paper, losing face because, we are interested in what we call matching markets or marriage markets, which sounds an awful lot more interesting, to non economist than industrial economists because for economists, this just means we're looking at markets where people meet essentially. And, they basically form pairs of groups. One of the more relevant, applications of that is the labor market where firms and workers meet and the firms are represented by, for instance, hiring committees, the workers. And obviously it is important for economic outcomes in the aggregate for, the persons involved, how efficient these meetings and matchings and assignments occur.
00:00:45 - of work being done on search matching. Nobel prizes have been awarded and, a number of other interviewees have been talking about this, but, Macau and I were a bit, surprised that, all of these studies basically have not entirely looked at how human behavior shaped, and that's where the marriage market name is, is actually helpful because when we look at marriage market and where people meet, and then sometimes marriage a certain hesitance to ask the other other person out
00:01:32 - And, that is not something that an economic agents in, in our modeling would usually do. We are looking at rational agents and they're not inhibited by emotions. And then we were basically thinking about this is something that every one of us experiences being shy about asking somebody because we might be rejected. and nobody has ever looked at that. So we thought this, this, this might really impede the workings of markets once we kind of like put this behavioral issue in. And that was basically how we came to do our work.
00:02:10 - basically branched out and everything else. but this was essentially back to my roots and we were basically employing theoretical research that builds on obviously, other contributions that other people have made, lab field experiments, data and so on. But mostly this is a theory paper where we apply game theoretic modeling in order to derive conclusions and predictions how these market will turn out when we admit for behavioral issues like fear of rejection, loss of face,
00:02:51 - to attacking these type of questions is essentially that we can measure how good solutions are. by employing game Theoretical models, we can use the whole tool kits in economics that allows us to evaluate different policies or different solutions by their welfare that they generate. So that is the, the, the good thing about being theoretical. I love to talk about game theory. I ask a professor to talk about game three. I never stop. so what we did is essentially we used some, asymmetric information game between,
00:03:30 - And for convenience we labeled that male and female because the whole idea and the intuition comes from a marriage market. And it's not wrong to interpret our model as one of a marriage market where females and males meet, and then they basically have a look at each other and decide whether or not to propose game. Theoretically, this is modeled by private information of the players about their own type. They do not have information about the type of the other player. The types are important because we derive utility wealth from the type of the other. So we would quite like to match with the player

"Understanding Match Signals: The Dynamics of Information and Behavior in Market Interactions"

00:04:14 - has more value to us. That's why types are important. But we can't observe the types, we don't wear 'em on our foreheads. we might wear the right type of watch, for instance on the other hand. So when we meet in our model, each of the player that meet receives a signal about the other player. And the signal is basically all kinds of information that we can basic digest and use to basically generate an idea about the other's type. So this is about information essentially before we meet, we have no specific information about the other player. When we meet, we receive a signal about that player's value
00:04:59 - and that's essentially the model. And then we derived essentially the optimal actions and the optimal strategies of the player to remain game theory speed. And that basically means characterizing what kind of signals would induce a player to accept the other party. And that basically is the, the, the model we look for in Nash equilibrium, where both players basically behave in a way that's optimal for them, given that the other player also behaves in a way that's optimal, optimal for them given the
00:05:39 - The interesting thing about this is essentially that in the outcome our players use what we call threshold strategies. So they get a signal about the other player and if that signal is good enough, you go all in and propose. And yes, I would quite like to kind of continue with you, But we don't have loss of phase. but yields sufficient outcomes. We are processing information and based on the information that we have, we make a decision. And this is mutual. So both of the players will make mutually efficient decision and the right quote unquote matches will form With loss of phase. We have a bit of a problem because players are inhibited,
00:06:21 - they're getting more picky, in particular the high types. They will now raise the threshold that they require to be convinced of the other players worthiness. So they're getting more picky. And that means overall matching activity, goes down. So there are fewer successful matches in the economy. So if you translate that into labor markets, if loss of face played a role in the labor market in particular for employees who are looking for another post, then you have a direct consequence for unemployment because there's too little matching activities going on.
00:07:03 - and we also find some interesting side effects that in particular when you have asymmetric loss of face that is one of the market side is affected more by the loss of faith. It could be it could come from the procedure. One market side has to, has to propose and the other one has to say yes or no for instance. And that means essentially they are, they don't have to kind of expose themselves. then basically anything can happen. It depends a lot on the particular market, on the particular, situation and which kind of agents come together. So it could be that the market side
00:07:45 - because they become more, more, more picky. And that loss is actually born by the market side who doesn't have loss of face. So not having loss of face is not necessarily good for you. It if enough other people have it. and then finally I think that is probably taking, taking us into policy territory. What can we do about it if it really exists? we also consider a framework which we call conditionally anonymous environment. And that is basically a, a simple trick. We only reveal that, you have

"Addressing Loss of Face in Matching Markets: Algorithms, Real-World Applications, and Impacts on Equality"

00:08:30 - if the potential match in return has accepted you. So if you accept your match, reject your potential match will never learn that you would have had them. And that means essentially that sort of loss of faith where you suffer from revealing your interest. You believe that this could be a match, where this Loss of faith, ca cannot occur because the other party never learns that you've basically exposed yourself. and that environment, we get the efficient outcome.
00:09:08 - markets where we have loss of faith, simple algorithms that act as intermediaries, that basically process accepts and rejects and only flag if a mutually acceptable matter has been found would solve the problem. And to our surprise, the market had already solved the problem because we found that the Tinder platform was based basically on this particular algorithm. So when we did the research, that was quite a few years ago. In particular when we started the research, Tinder wasn't as well known as it is now.
00:09:51 - actually our, our research had a counterpart in the real world and, and a pretty relevant one. But of course you can also think about, other type of, of matching markets. Think of speed dating between innovators. think about venture capitalists, or think about researchers who are trying to kind of find partners on projects. You don't want to go out expose yourself. I really want to work with you only to find, no thank you. That was very interesting, but no, thank you. so that is kind of the type of policy or real world application that we thought might be.
00:10:31 - to produce some empirical backup for our theoretical research. So what we would quite like to do permitting funding and all other things, is to take this research into the field or into the lab, and I think probably the field might be the place test it out, where we then could essentially, expose experimental participants to various environments and to see to what, what are the quantitative effects of loss of base? Does it exist? Is it important enough to really inhibit matchmaking, inhibit new connections being formed?
00:11:12 - to personal shyness? Are different people more or less affected by loss of faith? Because there's also an inequality aspect or angle here. if particular groups in the population are more prone to loss of phase than others, then they might lose out or given our a non, asymmetric environment results, they might even win. So we, we might have a, we, we might have a problem in terms of access to other, we might have a problem in terms of access to partners and equal access to partners due to loss of phase.
00:11:53 - our first priority.

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