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04/30/2002 Entry: ""

"Hope for the Hen-pecked: Paradoxical Games and Intertemporal Behavior in Asymmetric Marital Conflict"
with Rajeev Kohli and Raghuram Iyengar. In progress, target Journal of Consumer Research.

In this paper, we introduce the concept of paradoxical games to consumer behavior, and analyze asymmetric marital decision making situations. We construct a second-order model of marital decision making, which is biased towards one partner. We then analyze this as a repeated game, applying the Parrondo randomization procedure to demonstrate how the dominated partner may in fact combine losing strategies and end up better off overall. We then analyze the robustness of the model, and discuss how, rather than being a ?normative? mathematical artifact, it is actually a vivid representation of what happens in real life.

Don't miss the wedding album. I'm sure his marriage is very model.