A simple model of search consider an agent who lives two


A simple model of search. Consider an agent who lives two periods. He is unemployed at the beginning of the first period and has a wage offer of w. If he accepts the wage offer w, he will work forever at that wage. If he rejects the offer, he receives an unemployment benefit of 4 dollars this period and he gets to draw a new offer next period. There are only two possible offers with equal probability next period: one wage offer of 8 dollars, and another offer of 24 dollars. The worker’s objective is to maximize the sum of expected discounted earnings. The discount factor β is 0.5. (a) How much would the agent value today a dollar tomorrow? (Hint: use the concept of discount factor).

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