search and matching theory - 2024 ARGOS

Question

By the Hosios efficiency condition, a buyer’s surplus share is set equal to the elasticity of a function used in this theory. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this theory. Their development of a model in this theory that accounts for lasting effects of shocks won Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics.

ANSWER: search and matching theory [prompt on search theory or matching theory] (The function in the lead-in is the matching function.)

[10e] Common matching functions use the number of vacancies and the number of people with this trait as inputs. People who temporarily have this trait are classified as “frictional.”

ANSWER: unemployed [or jobless; or not working; accept word forms; accept frictional unemployment]

[10m] Due to their form, matching functions will display this property in an ideal labor market. Cobb-Douglas functions display this property if the sum of their exponents is equal to 1.

ANSWER: constant returns to scale [or CRS; prompt on returns to scale]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


BHSU ReFantazio	hawk two of	10	10	10	30
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	Clown Senpais	10	10	10	30
Music to Help You Stop Smoking	Clown Squad	0	10	0	10
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	Northeast by Northwestern	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	BHSU Rebirth	0	10	0	10
WashU	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	0	10	0	10
Banned from ARGOS	Pahkin' the Ahgo	0	10	0	10
"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	Hu up Jinning they Tao	0	10	0	10
Simple Vibes	Cien Años de Quizboledad	10	10	10	30
just one more half-dot bro	jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	0	10	0	10
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	0	10	0	10
Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	0	10	0	10
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	0	10	10	20
Berkeley	Cry of the Common Loon	0	10	0	10
Stanford+	Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	0	10	0	10
\|madam\|	Import Pandas	0	10	0	10
Defying Suavity	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	0	10	0	10
Limp Franceskit	Cambridge	0	10	0	10
Walston et. al.	12 Litres of Green Tea	0	10	0	10
Cope is the thing with feathers	NJ TRANSit (and anwen	0	10	0	10
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	0	10	0	10
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	0	10	0	10
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	0	10	0	10
Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	0	10	0	10
CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	UBC	0	10	10	20
throw away your cards, rally in the streets	Thompson et al.	0	10	10	20