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literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory …
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This paper explores the role of diversification and size in protecting information. We present a simple two period credit market with a sophisticated lender faced with competitors who free ride on his screening activity. Absent commitment problems, the lender funds one borrower and exerts...
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We characterize dynamic rational addiction to a harmful product by an informed individual who is connected to a network of users of the addictive product. The network harms the individual and imposes peer pressure on her to consume the addictive product. The network contributes to the state...
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does not take health conditions (or smoking status) into account in its annuity pricing. We find, contrary to the theory …
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The tobacco industry claims that increases in tobacco tax will not discourage people from smoking because smokers will …
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more time consistent when trading-off the current pleasure from smoking and its future health harms, and (iii) smoking bans …
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were analyzed, five demographic variables were related to rates of earning and smoking cigarettes in the lab: 1) males … smoking were observed in individuals with high Fagerström smoke more than heavy drinkers; and 5) unemployed subjects smoked …. Finally, we discuss the ability of behavioral- economic laboratory experiments to model cigarette smoking in the natural …
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