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by likelybear 2170 days ago
The difference based on which side proposes turns out to be a knife-edge result for balanced markets! For imbalanced markets, the short side gets average rank `O(log(n))` in every stable matching and the long side gets `O(n / log(n))`

Edit: reference is Ashlagi et al (2015). "Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition" http://web.mit.edu/iashlagi/www/papers/UnbalancedMatchingAKL...