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Design and analysis of multi-hospital kidney exchange mechanisms using random graphs. (English) Zbl 1318.91148

Summary: Kidney exchanges enable transplants when a pair of a patient and an incompatible donor is matched with other similar pairs. In multi-hospital kidney exchanges pairs are pooled from multiple hospitals, and each hospital is able to decide which pairs to report and which to hide and match locally. Modeling the problem as a maximum matching on a random graph, we first establish that the expected benefit from pooling scales as the square-root of the number of pairs in each hospital. We design the xCM mechanism, which achieves efficiency and incentivizes hospitals of moderate-to-large size to fully report their pairs. Reciprocal pairs are crucial in the design, with the probabilistic uniform rule used to ensure incentive alignment. By grouping certain pair types into so-called virtual-reciprocal pairs, xCM extends to handle 3-cycles. We validate the performance of xCM in simulation, demonstrating its efficiency and incentive advantages over the Bonus mechanism [I. Ashlagi and A. E. Roth, “Free riding and participation in large scale, multi-hospital kidney exchange”, Theor. Econ. 9, No. 3, 817–863 (2014; doi:10.3982/TE1357)].

MSC:

91B68 Matching models
05C90 Applications of graph theory
05C80 Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects)

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