While current economic theory focuses on prices and games, this book models economic settings where harmony is established through one of the following societal conventions: • A power relation according to which stronger agents are able to force weaker ones to do things against their will. •...

We study optimal monopoly pricing with evasive consumers. The monopolist uses consumer data to estimate demand and menu pricing to optimally screen the residual uncertainty about consumers' preferences. Third degree price discrimination encourages data-conscious consumers to manipulate their...

We introduce a game-theoretic model with switching costs and endogenous references. An agent endogenizes his reference strategy and then, taking switching costs into account, he selects a strategy from which there is no profitable deviation. We axiomatically characterize this selection procedure...