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We study collective decisions by time-discounting individuals choosing a common consumption stream. We show that with any heterogeneity in time preferences, every Pareto efficient and non-dictatorial method of aggregating utility functions must be time-inconsistent. We also show that decisions...
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This paper studies optimal task assignments in a setting where agents are expectation-based loss averse according to KoszegiRabin (2006) and KoszegiRabin (2007) and are compensated according to an aggregated performance measure in which tasks are technologically independent. We show that the...
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This paper considers an implementation problem with bounded rationality of the agents. Bounded rationality presented here means that the agent might choose the agent's best response which is different from the agent's dominant strategy. To describe such a behavior, this paper introduces a new...
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classical questions of implementation theory under complete information in a setting with transfers where farsighted coalitions …
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We study collective decisions by time-discounting individuals choosing a common consumption stream. We show that with any heterogeneity in time preferences, utilitarian aggregation necessitates a present bias. In lab experiments three quarters of `social planners' exhibited present biases, and...
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Models involving human decision-makers often include idealized assumptions, such as rationality, perfect foresight, and access to relevant information. These assumptions usually assure the models' internal validity but, at the same time, might limit the models' power to explain empirical...
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words, government serves as our agent. Understood in light of Principal-Agent Theory (PAT) and Behavioral Principal …-Agent Theory (BPAT), a great deal of modern regulation can be helpfully evaluated as a hypothetical delegation. Shifting from …
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