| Literature DB >> 29135211 |
Alvin E Roth1,2, Tayfun Sönmez3, Utku Ünver4.
Abstract
Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing infrastructure to perform three-way as well as two-way exchanges will have a substantial effect on the number of transplants that can be arranged. Larger than three-way exchanges have less impact on efficiency. In a general model of type-compatible exchanges, the size of the largest exchanges required to achieve efficiency equals the number of types.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 29135211 DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.3.828
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am Econ Rev ISSN: 0002-8282