This paper characterizes the conditions under which holdout (i.e. bargaining inefficiency) may, or may not be significant in a two-sided, one-buyer-many-seller model with complementarity. We address this problem in a very general setup with a bargaining protocol that is symmetric and allows for...

This paper studies a non-cooperative bargaining problem with one buyer and many sellers, focussing on the tension between the complementarity intrinsic to such a setup and efficiency. We address this problem in a very general setup with a technology that allows for variable degrees of...

This paper develops a theory of sequential lending in groups in micro-finance that centers on the notion of dynamic incentives, in particular the simple idea that default incentives should be relatively uniformly distributed across time. In a framework that allows project returns to accrue over...

Consider an agent with fuzzy preferences, who has to make exact choices when faced with different feasible sets of alternatives. Confining our analysis to the case of feasible sets with not more than two alternatives, we axiomatically characterize two broad classes of decision rules (`ratio...

The authors propose a solution concept--which they call viable proposals--for games in coalitional form that endogenously determines a coalition structure together with an associated set of payoff configurations as parts of the solution. They show that there is at least one viable proposal for...

Describing a procedure in which choice proceeds in a sequence, we propose two alternatives ways of resolving the decision problem whenever the outcome is sequence-sensitive. One way yields a rationalizable choice set, and the other way produces a weakly rationalizable choice set that is...

We study a variant of the multi-candidate Hotelling-Downs model that recognizes that politicians, even after declaring candidacy, have the option of withdrawing from the electoral contest before the election date and saving the cost of continuing campaign. We find that this natural variant...