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JET
2016
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A life-cycle model with ambiguous survival beliefs
On average, “young” people underestimate whereas “old” people overestimate their chances to survive into the future. We adopt a Bayesian learning model of ambiguous surviv...
Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper
JET
2016
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Delegated information acquisition with moral hazard
We analyze a principal-agent problem with moral hazard where a principal searches for an opportunity of uncertain return, and hires an agent to evaluate available options. The age...
Hector Chade, Natalia Kovrijnykh
JET
2016
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Optimal dynamic mechanism design with deadlines
A seller maximizes revenue from selling an object in a dynamic environment, with buyers that differ in their patience: Each buyer has a privately known deadline for buying and a p...
Konrad Mierendorff
JET
2016
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Convergence of best-response dynamics in extensive-form games
This paper presents a collection of convergence results on best-response dynamics in extensive-form games. We prove that in all finite generic extensive-form games of perfect inf...
Zibo Xu
JET
2016
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Existence of equilibria in discontinuous Bayesian games
We provide easily-verifiable sufficient conditions on the primitives of a Bayesian game to guarantee the existence of a behavioral-strategy Bayes-Nash equilibrium. We allow playe...
Wei He, Nicholas C. Yannelis