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set of linear inequalities. From this solution he constructed a utility function rationalizing the choices of a …
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We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first mover and a conditional action as second mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. Using these elicited beliefs, we...
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the current level of consumption. The kinks in the curves imply that the utility function is not differentiable everywhere …
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the data by a well-behaved utility function. Our results complement the main finding of Polisson and Quah, Am. Econ. J …
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Adaptation is omnipresent but people systematically fail to correctly anticipate the degree to which they adapt. This leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers...
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results are mostly in line with the theory: We find evidence of consumption smoothing, since individual current and planned …
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(relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve …
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Habits are an important cause of sluggish consumption adjustment in response to price shocks. This paper studies shifts within the consumption bundle under endogenous habit formation. I put forward a model with good-specific, or 'deep', habits that cause persistence in good-specific consumption....
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This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits. On average, nationally efficient prices are substantial, $57.5 per ton of CO<sub>2</sub> (for year 2010), reflecting primarily...
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the conservation value is low, the consumption value high, and the buyer’s protection cost large. The theory explains why …
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