The role of a matchmaker in buyer-vendor interactions
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چکیده
We consider a simple market where a vendor offers multiple variants of a certain product. Preferences of the vendor and of potential buyers are heterogeneous and often antagonistic. Optimization of the joint benefit of the vendor and the buyers turns the toy market into a combinatorial matching problem. We compare optimal solutions found with and without a matchmaker, examine the resulting inequality between the market participants, and study the influence of correlations. PACS. 89.65.Gh Economics; econophysics, financial markets, business and management – 89.75.-k Complex systems
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