This paper investigates time consistent preferences where the strategy space consists of a stopping time, and decision-maker also acts under uncertainty. Despite the requirement of identical vNM preferences, it is shown that in addition to the e xponential discounting class identified by Strotz...

I illustrate the convergence to Rubinstein's (1982) bargaining outcome of the solutions of the finite-horizon truncations of that game. The depiction is new, and hopefully instructive, and has the flavour of international trade diagrams.

This paper has pushed Becker's matching insights into a quite plausible search setting. Exploiting the implicit integral equation (10), we gave a thorough characterization of cross-sectional matching patterns in the equilibrium and constrained s ocial optimum of a frictional matching model. In...

We prove that the recently proposed informational herding models are but special cases of a standard single person experimentation model with myopia. We then re-interpret the incorrect herding outcome as a familiar failure of complete learning in an optimal experimentation problem.

This paper systematically analyses and enriches the observational learning paradigm of Banerjee (1992) and Bikhchandani, Hirscleifer, and Welch (1992).