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Counting Combinatorial Choice Rules
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I count the number of combinatorial choice rules that satisfy certain properties: Kelso-Crawford substitutability, and independence of irrelevant alternatives. The results are important for two-sided matching theory, where agents are modeled by combinatorial choice rules with these properties. The rules are a small, and asymtotically vanishing, fraction of all choice rules. But they are still exponentially more than the preference relations over individual agents—which has positive implications for the Gale-Shapley algorithm of matching theory.
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I am very grateful to Ilya Segal, for posing this problem, and for discussions on the results. Published as Echenique, F. (2007). Counting combinatorial choice rules. Games and Economic Behavior, 58(2), 231-245.Attached Files
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