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We investigate the role that self-control problems modeled as time-inconsistent, present-biased preferences and a person's awareness of those problems might play in leading people to develop and maintain harmful addictions. Present-biased preferences create a tendency to over-consume addictive...
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People underappreciate how their own behavior and exogenous factors affect their future utility, and thus exaggerate the degree to which their future preferences resemble their current preferences. We present evidence which demonstrates the prevalence of such projection bias, and develop a...
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Recent models of procrastination due to self-control problems assume that a procrastinator considers just one option and is unaware of her self-control problems. We develop a model where a person chooses from a menu of options and is partially aware of her self-control problems. This menu model...
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-cycle wealth accumulation and portfolios allowing for uncertain returns, incomes, and lifespan. We separate the effects of various … factors on mean and median asset holdings, including education, risk aversion, household heterogeneity, bequests, impatience …
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This paper studies effects of two classes of borrowing constraints, collateral- and income-based, on wealth … on wealth turns out to be a very special case among collateral constraints: not only is constrained consumption equal to … income but precautionary wealth holding is zero. Income-based constraints reverse the sign of precautionary effects on …
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Transitional dynamics in growth models have been subject to much attention recently. With a few exceptions, existing studies rely on computational techniques. This paper uses a set of examples to illustrate that qualitative insights on the transitional dynamics can be gained at the expense of...
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Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to … profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly …
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Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to … profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561778
=========================================================== CONCEPTS DERIVED :- 01. DOMESTIC INVESTMENTS THROUGH DOMESTIC SAVINGS – EXOGENOUS CIRCLE. (INDIVIDUAL / CORPORATE / GOVERNMENT …
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This paper explores the consequences of rising returns to human capital investment on the personal savings rate. Over … to argue the presence of 'skill biased technological progress'. The literature explaining household savings has also … negative relationship between returns to education and savings rates across most of the past century and also a negative …
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