An Empirical Framework For Matching With Imperfect Competition

The first version is April 2nd, 2019. This present version is May 15, 2024. We thank Victor Aguirregabiria, Karen Bernhardt-Walther, Stéphane Bonhomme, Antoine Djogbenou, Yao Luo, Thibault Lamadon, Magne Mogstad, Suresh Naidu, Marcin Peski, and Aloysius Siow for helpful discussions, and seminar audiences at Western University, University of Toronto, WUSTL, UCL, Berkeley, Columbia, Wisconsin Madison, Virginia, UBC, Princeton, University of Bergen, Aarhus University, Queen’s University, the US Census, University of Michigan, UIUC, Notre Dame University, and University of Chicago. We thank Renato Zimmermann for excellent research assistance. The research was conducted in part when Ismael Mourifié was visiting the Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) at the University of Chicago. Mourifié thanks his hosts for its hospitality and support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.