This paper is the first to analyze and value early exercises of Individual Investors in fixed-income investment products. Assuming decision and transaction costs we consider that a continuous decision-making on holding or exercising is not optimal anymore and propose a new approach to modeling...

Turning the page -- On the use of dynamic models in economics -- What to do with uncertainties? -- Optimization in age-structured dynamic economic models -- A vindication of open-loop equilibria in differential games -- A linear state game of advertising à la Vidale-Wolfe -- The cost of myopia...

Game and decision theory start from rather strong premises. Preferences, represented by utilities, beliefs represented by probabilities, common knowledge and symmetric rationality as background assumptions are treated as “given.” A richer language enabling us to capture the process leading...