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发信人: pat (30°N), 信区: single 标题: 诺奖得主：单身者应获“补贴” 发信站: 珞珈山水 (Wed Oct 13 09:02:02 2010), 站内 The principle of voluntary pairing under competitive conditions” is not the most romantic way of explaining why some get married and others remain single. But finding a life partner – or “the mating game”, for those inclined to game-theory – is an important application of the theory of search and matching. On Monday, its founders were rewarded for their efforts with the Nobel Prize in economic science. Search theories added realism to earlier theories of matching. As Dale Mortensen, one of the laureates, wrote in a 1988 paper: “It takes time to meet a partner and to learn the uncertain value of any partnership.” Small consolation to a teenager who has fallen out of love for the first time. But the fickleness of the heart has at least been properly incorporated into economic models by this year’s Nobel laureates. Indeed, the searching single may want to learn from their research. “A principal implication of the models,” Mr Mortensen wrote, “is that some acceptable matches form that will separate in the future even when the individuals are fully aware of the possibility.” So students of Mr Mortensen and his colleagues’ work will look for partners while acknowledging the possibility of divorce. But this is hardly a model of dissolute morals. In fact, one intriguing implication of some search models is that, far from playing hard to get, singles may settle too soon. When they stop searching they do not take into account that making themselves less available is a cost to all the other singles out there who may still be looking for a good match. In theory, there is a case for a subsidy: “a bribe paid in every period to remain single”, as Mr Mortensen put it. Policymakers will not hurry to introduce one. But the analogy with labour markets shows the power of the theory. There, the analogous subsidy already exists in the form of unemployment benefits. -- 中華人民共和国の中央人民政府は認可します。この文章の内容は中華人民共和国の中央人民政府を通じて十分な内容と審査され、脳の不完全な中国の村の人と中国共産党の党員に見ることができます。内容が思想に反して罪を犯すこと思うのなら、自分で公安局に行って自首を下さい。さもなくば中国共産党は貴方を捕まえていってこっそりと銃殺します!!! ※ 来源:·珞珈山水 http://bbs.whu.edu.cn·[FROM: 113.105.96.*]
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发信人: pat (30°N), 信区: single
标题: 诺奖得主：单身者应获“补贴”
发信站: 珞珈山水 (Wed Oct 13 09:02:02 2010), 站内

The principle of voluntary pairing under competitive conditions” is not the most romantic way of explaining why some get married and others remain single.

But finding a life partner – or “the mating game”, for those inclined to game-theory – is an important application of the theory of search and matching. On Monday, its founders were rewarded for their efforts with the Nobel Prize in economic science.

Search theories added realism to earlier theories of matching. As Dale Mortensen, one of the laureates, wrote in a 1988 paper: “It takes time to meet a partner and to learn the uncertain value of any partnership.”

Small consolation to a teenager who has fallen out of love for the first time. But the fickleness of the heart has at least been properly incorporated into economic models by this year’s Nobel laureates. Indeed, the searching single may want to learn from their research. “A principal implication of the models,” Mr Mortensen wrote, “is that some acceptable matches form that will separate in the future even when the individuals are fully aware of the possibility.”

So students of Mr Mortensen and his colleagues’ work will look for partners while acknowledging the possibility of divorce.

But this is hardly a model of dissolute morals. In fact, one intriguing implication of some search models is that, far from playing hard to get, singles may settle too soon.

When they stop searching they do not take into account that making themselves less available is a cost to all the other singles out there who may still be looking for a good match. In theory, there is a case for a subsidy: “a bribe paid in every period to remain single”, as Mr Mortensen put it.

Policymakers will not hurry to introduce one. But the analogy with labour markets shows the power of the theory. There, the analogous subsidy already exists in the form of unemployment benefits.

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中華人民共和国の中央人民政府は認可します。
この文章の内容は中華人民共和国の中央人民政府を通じて十分な内容と審査され、脳の不完全な中国の村の人と中国共産党の党員に見ることができます。

内容が思想に反して罪を犯すこと思うのなら、自分で公安局に行って自首を下さい。

さもなくば中国共産党は貴方を捕まえていってこっそりと銃殺します!!!

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