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We now go on to study a class of time-inconsistent stopping problems in discrete time. We start by defining the concepts of Markovian stopping strategies and subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium stopping strategies. Following similar steps to those in the control case, we then proceed to derive an extension of the standard Wald–Bellman equation to a non-standard extended system that allows for the determination of the equilibrium value function and the equilibrium stopping strategy. Examples studied at the end of the chapter include a time-inconsistent version of a simple secretary problem and a procrastination problem for a time-inconsistent agent who decides when to complete a task.
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Björk, T., Khapko, M., Murgoci, A. (2021). Time-Inconsistent Stopping in Discrete Time. In: Time-Inconsistent Control Theory with Finance Applications. Springer Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81843-2_23
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