addiction benefit because they can switch to a less harmful substance, but opponents argue that this could encourage abstainers … to begin using the harm reduction method or even the original addictive good. This paper builds on theories of addiction …

in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising …

, in that they are more likely to postpone earlier plans for retirement. The evidence and theory suggest that the negative …

restrictions implied by asset pricing theory. We treat the functional form of the habit as unknown, and to estimate it along with …

addiction. In contrast to prior research, we allow individuals to make their consumption decisions simultaneous with savings and … labor supply. When addictive goods have a stronger habit formation effect (an addiction effect'), individuals choose to save … less due to the anticipated adverse health consequences of addiction (a detrimental health effect'). This is particularly …

We use a framework suggested by a model of rational addiction to analyze empirically the demand for cigarettes. The … results provide support for the implications of a rational addiction model that cross price effects are negative (consumption …

how consumers respond to drug withdrawals. In theory, remaining drugs in the therapeutic class could enjoy competitive …In September 1997, the anti-obesity drugs Pondimin and Redux, ingredients in the popular drug combination fen … benefits, or suffer negative spillovers, from the withdrawal of a competing drug. Our findings suggest that, while the …