The contradiction between charging stations (CSs) and electric vehicles (EVs) is a "chicken-and-egg" problem. Multiple factors and stakeholders, including the goals of the government's industry planning, CS operators' profits, and EV consumers' charging demand, influence the CS layout. Using...

We investigate how overconfidence and production technology interact to influence decision making. We show that increasing a production factor can make an overconfident agent worse off. Two effects drive this result. First, if the production factor is a complement with ability, then the...

There is considerable variation in retirement savings within income, age, and educational categories. Using a broad sample of the U.S. population, we elicit time preference parameters from a quasi-hyperbolic discounting model, and perceptions of exponential growth. We find that present bias...