THE MEETING PLACE PROBLEM - SALIENCE AND SEARCH

The notion of salience was developed by Schelling in the context of th e meeting-place problem of locating a partner in the absence of a pre- agreed meeting place. In this paper, we argue that a realistic specifi cation of the meeting place problem involves allowing a strategy of ac tive search over a range of possible meeting places. We solve this ext ended problem, allowing for extensions such as repeated play, search c osts and asymmetric payoffs. The result is a considerably richer, but more complex, notion of salience. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.