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Addiction and economic rationality : a theoretical contraddiction?

Mistri, Maurizio - In: Studi economici : rivista quadrimestrale 58 (2003) 3, pp. 5-18

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Rational addiction and time consistency : an empirical test

Piccoli, Luca; Tiezzi, Silvia - 2020

This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its … addiction equation cannot distinguish between time consistency and inconsistency in preferences. We show that an encompassing … general specification of the rational addiction model embeds the possibility of testing for time consistent versus time …

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A Dynamic model of rational addiction with stockpiling and learning : an empirical examination of e-cigarettes

Chen, Jialie; Rao, Vithala R. - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 66 (2020) 12, pp. 5886-5905

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Procrastination and learning about self-control

Christensen, Else Gry Bro; Murooka, Takeshi - 2019

We study a model of task completion with the opportunity to learn about own self-control problems over time. While the agent is initially uncertain about her future self-control, in each period she can choose to learn about it by paying a non-negative learning cost and spending one period. If...

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