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Time Consistent Optimal Stopping

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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 (1956), negative affine discounting also yields time consistent behavior.

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  • Smith, L., 1997. "Time Consistent Optimal Stopping," Working papers 97-5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:mit:worpap:97-5
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    1. Jussi Keppo & Lones Smith & Dmitry Davydov, 2006. "Optimal Electoral Timing: Exercise Wisely and You May Live Longer," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1565, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
    2. Halevy, Yoram, 2004. "Diminishing Impatience: Disentangling Time Preference from Uncertain Lifetime," Microeconomics.ca working papers halevy-04-10-29-09-59-47, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 25 Feb 2014.

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    • C44 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory

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