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. 2007 Jun;97(3):828-51.
doi: 10.1257/aer.97.3.828.

Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences

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Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences

Alvin E Roth et al. Am Econ Rev. 2007 Jun.

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.

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