not be strong enough to reverse the politico-economic force for a positive redistributive taxation under temptation and …

there is a loss from taxation, government intervention is needed only if the level of temptation is sufficiently high. For … high levels of temptation, free compulsory education or vouchers are optimal, whereas price subsidies may be optimal for … intermediate levels of temptation. …

better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public good game with …

presents a welfare analysis of energy policies that is based on a behavioral model of temptation and self-control, introduced … by Gul and Pesendorfer [23,24]. We find that, in the presence of temptation, (i) Pigovian taxes alone do not yield a …

visceral influence; naïve expectations lead the agent to exaggerate the expected utility of resisting temptation and so …

utility is affected by unwanted temptation. This implies that implications of various government policies would differ if one … temptation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the question of optimal taxation when individuals have self-control problems …. In order to capture our agents’ temptation towards current consumption, our model make use of the preference structure …

focus on the fact that lack of information is a potential source of temptation. Indeed lack of information doesn't allow the …

focus on the fact that lack of information is a potential source of temptation. Indeed lack of information doesn't allow the …

This paper extends the theory of temptation and self-control introduced by Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) to allow for … increasing marginal costs of resisting temptation, that is, convex self-control costs. It also proves a representation theorem …