addiction hypothesis in respect with goods without any biological dependency. …

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 … theory suggests that past and future consumption play a part in determining the current period's consumption for habit …

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 …