We investigate the use of exploding offers in job hiring situations via behavioral experiments. The pro-poser chooses between issuing an exploding or extended offer, while the responder waits for a better out-side alternative. Whereas an exploding offer must be accepted or rejected before...

An important characteristic of any offer is the deadline at which it expires. We consider an ultimatum deadline game in which the proposer's decision variable is the offer deadline, while the responder faces a standard finite-horizon search problem. We show that the responder's strategy is...