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not be strong enough to reverse the politico-economic force for a positive redistributive taxation under temptation and …
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Firm moral judgment deems dishonest acts as categorically wrong, and considers any self-serving justification for them as further dishonesty. People, however, commonly use self-serving justifications in order to feel honest even as they behave dishonestly, indicating reduced moral firmness. We...
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temptation, perfectionists, and persons susceptible to self-deceit. …
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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 …
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visceral influence; naïve expectations lead the agent to exaggerate the expected utility of resisting temptation and so …
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Health-care experts believe that increases in portion sizes served by food vendors contribute to the obesity epidemic. This paper shows that food vendors can profit handsomely by using supersizing strategies where regular portion sizes are priced sufficiently high to discourage price-conscious...
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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 …
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temptation and self-control to capture an individual who changes her beliefs so as to become more pessimistic as payoff time …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599426
This paper proposes a theory of the relationship between prohibitions and temptation. In the presence of self … investigates the relationship between morality and temptation, the individual gains from morality, the interaction between external …
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