The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate, when reasonably calibrated. Ample empirical evidence, however, shows that the transition path of a country's saving rate exhibits a rising or non-monotonic pattern. In important...

This paper examines capacity-constrained oligopoly pricing with sellers who seek myopic improvements. We employ the Myopic Stable Set solution concept and establish the existence of a unique pure-strategy price solution for any given level of capacity. This solution is shown to coincide with the...

In has been frequently observed, in both economics and psychology, that individuals tend to conform to the choices of other individuals with whom thy identify. Can such conformity be consistent with self-interested behaviour? To address this question we use the framework of games with incomplete...

The analysis in Galperti and Strulovici (2017) relies on two axioms that appear normatively and descriptively very appealing. Notably, these two axioms, taken together with some standard axioms, imply a failure of dynamic consistency. The current comment argues that the two axioms are less...