Since the end of the eighties the Becker and Murphy model of rational addiction has been the dominant approach to … estimate addiction effects. A rational addictive consumer, a smoker for instance, is supposed to maximize over the life cycle a … stable utility function and to be fully aware of the future consequences of her addiction and chooses to be an addicted …

Objective – This study looks at the addiction behaviour of Pokémon Go players in Malaysia. Its purpose is to identify … the addiction behaviour of Pokémon Go players in terms of their awareness and attitude. Using the Theory of Planned … Behaviour (TPB), the objectives of the study are:(1) to identify the level of awareness, attitude and addiction behaviour of …

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 …

, we apply the Becker-Murphy model of rational addiction to present evidence that consumers are rationally addicted to soda … and consumption and study the role of addiction in influencing this impact. Using the parameter estimates, we conduct … policy experiments indicate that imposing a soda tax of 1 cent per ounce would reduce soda consumption by 28.3% and addiction …

This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its … addiction equation cannot distinguish between time consistency and inconsistency in preferences. We show that an encompassing … general specification of the rational addiction model embeds the possibility of testing for time consistent versus time …

This paper examines the demand for attendance at National Football League (NFL) games using a rational addiction model … to test the hypothesis that professional football displays the properties of a habit-forming good. Rational addiction … display characteristics of rational addiction in their consumption behavior …