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Preventing relapse to information technology addiction through weakening reinforcement : a self-regulation perspective

Chen, Chongyang; Zhang, Kem Z. K.; Gong, Xiang; Lee, … - In: Information & management : the internat. journal of … 58 (2021) 5, pp. 1-21

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Resolving the milk addiction paradox

Dragone, Davide; Raggi, Davide - In: Journal of health economics 77 (2021), pp. 1-13

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Effectiveness and addictiveness of quantitative easing

Karadi, Peter; Nakov, Anton - In: Journal of monetary economics 117 (2021), pp. 1096-1117

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The Economics of Workaholism : We Should Not Have Worked on this Paper

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Slemrod, Joel B. - 2021

A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We argue that for some people addictive behavior may apply to a much more central aspect of economic life: working. Workaholism is subject to the same concerns about the individual as...

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Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence

Gruber, Jonathan; Koszegi, Botond - 2021

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical … per pack of cigarettes should be at least one dollar higher under our formulation than in the rational addiction case …

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Addiction and Cue-Conditioned Cognitive Processes

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Rangel, Antonio - 2021

We propose an economic theory of addiction based on the premise that cognitive mechanisms such as attention affect … neurosciencee and psychology) concerning the nature of decision-making and addiction. The model is analytically tractable, and it … accounts for a broad range of stylized facts concerning addiction. It also generates a plausible qualitative mapping from the …

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Rational Addictive Behavior and Cigarette Smoking

Chaloupka, Frank J. - 2021

After a discussion of cigarette smoking in the context of the Becker-Murphy (1988) model of rational addictive behavior, demand equations are derived accounting for the tolerance, reinforcement, and withdrawal characteristic of addictive consumption. These are contrasted to equations developed...

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Addictive Platforms

Ichihashi, Shota; Kim, Byung-Cheol - 2021

We study competition for consumer attention in which platforms can sacrifice service quality for attention. A platform can choose the "addictiveness" of service; a more addictive platform yields consumers a lower utility of participation but a higher marginal utility of allocating attention. We...

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Price Uncertainty, Tax Policy, and Addiction : Evidence and Implications

Coppejans, Mark; Sieg, Holger - 2021

Consumption of addictive goods is subject to habit formation. Forward-looking individuals must, therefore, be concerned about future prices when making current consumption decisions. We study prices for tobacco products based on a unique data set provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our...

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Rational Addiction, Peer Externalities and Long Run Effects of Public Policy

Kenkel, Donald; Reed III, Robert R.; Wang, Ping - 2021

addiction. In contrast to prior research, we allow individuals to make their consumption decisions simultaneous with savings and … labor supply. When addictive goods have a stronger habit formation effect (an addiction effect'), individuals choose to save … less due to the anticipated adverse health consequences of addiction (a detrimental health effect'). This is particularly …

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