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Nonlinear pricing with self-control preferences

Esteban, Susanna; Miyagawa, Eiichi; Shum, Matthew - 2003

This paper studies optimal nonlinear pricing for a monopolist when consumers' preferences exhibit temptation and self …-control as in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001a). Consumers are subject to temptation inside the store but exercise self-control, and … those foreseeing large self-control costs do not enter the store. Consumers differ in their preferences under temptation …

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Put a bet on it: Can self-funded commitment contracts curb fitness procrastination?

Spika, Devon; Östervall, Linnea Wickström; Gerdtham, … - 2023

This paper investigates the use of self-funded commitment contracts to support individuals in achieving their goals of increased physical activity. We compare the effect of soft (non-incentivised) commitment contracts with hard (incentivised) contracts using a randomised experiment with 1629...

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Self-Scanning and Self-Control: A Field Experiment on Real-Time Feedback and Shopping Behavior

Montinari, Natalia; Runnemark, Emma; Wengström, Erik - 2017

Payment and checkout at retail stores is increasingly being replaced by automated systems. One recent technological invention in this area is mobile self-scanning in which customers carry a mobile scanner while shopping. Mobile self-scanners give real-time feedback on spending. The device...

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Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps? The Role of Lock-Ins, Tax Share, and Mobility

Cheung, Ron; Cunningham, Chris R. - 2010

We examine voter support in 2008 for Constitutional Amendment 1 in Florida, which modifies a Proposition 13–like property assessment growth cap by allowing homeowners to port their exempted value to a new home. Despite claims by amendment proponents that it would lower property taxes, we do...

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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

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Local Economies and General Elections

Elinder, Mikael - 2006

This paper estimates voters' response to municipality and regional level unemployment and economic growth, in Swedish general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage...

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Immigration and voting for the extreme right

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …

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Eu transfers and euroscepticism: Can't buy me love?

Borin, Alessandro; Macchi, Elisa; Mancini, Michele - 2018

This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political...

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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? The Brexit case

Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019

uence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the …

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Can increased education help reduce the political opportunity gap?

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2017

-economic gap in voting. We distinguish between reforms of two types that may lead to differences in the exercise of voting; (a … education on vocational training programs. We find that the reform reduced the gap in voting mainly by means of its stronger …

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