We investigate a canonical search-theoretic model without entry. Two agents are randomly matched with a long side being rationed. The matched agents face a pair of randomly drawn non-transferable payoffs, and then choose whether or not to form a partnership subject to a small probability of...

This paper studies the role of memory and communication in games between ongoing organizations. In each organization, each individual, upon entry into the game, replaces his predecessor who has the same preferences and faces the same strategic possibilities. Entry across distinct organizations...

We focus on the outcomes sustained by the decision rule consistent with the satisficing behavior a la Simon [1987], slightly perturbed to incorporate sympathy in the spirit of Hume [1978]. For a general class of two person games, as the probability of continuing the long term relationship...

In general symmetric games with a pure symmetric efficient state (Karadika, Mookherjee, Ray and Vega-Rodondo [1998]), the long term relationship becomes pervasive if the society has a large number of players and the probability of exogenous termination of long term relationship is small. At any...