Alvin Roth (left) and Lloyd Shapley were awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Economics. Prices are often the easiest way to create an efficient market–the person willing to pay the most gets the thing ...

The Gale-Shapley algorithm is a matching algorithm used in government-developed dating services, college admissions, and medical residency matching programs. An expert explains how this algorithm is ...

SINGAPORE – Public officers joining Government Technology Agency’s (GovTech) new dating pilot will not be matched with colleagues from the same government agency, the agency has said.

Today the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to Professor Alvin Roth of Harvard and Professor Lloyd Shapely of UCLA for their work on "stable allocations" theory. Their work has been used for ...