Society for Economic Dynamics Plenary Address

Time Consistency, Reputations, and the Importance of Perpetual Uncertainty:
Implications for Macroeconomics

George J. Mailath

Paris, June 28, 2003

The slides from the talk can be found here in pdf.

The cited papers are:

• Who Wants a Good Reputation? with Larry Samuelson, Review of Economic Studies, 68 (April 2001), 415-441.
• Imperfect Monitoring and Impermanent Reputations, with Martin Cripps and Larry Samuelson, Econometrica, 72 (2004), 407-432. (Some of the results are extended in Disappearing Private Reputations in Long-Run Relationships, also with Martin Cripps and Larry Samuelson, Journal of Economic Theory, 134 (May 2007), 287-316.)

Updated March 3, 2010 .