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Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise … to complete. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of `motivated procrastination'. In a … (motivated procrastination) turns out to be robust to accounting for decision-makers' time preferences and emotional responses …
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procrastination. The decision maker is assumed to have stationary behavior and to be partially naive in the sense of perceiving that … used elsewhere in game theory. In the case of procrastination, it leads to a clear welfare conclusion: Being partially …
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Defaults have been shown to have a powerful effect on retirement saving behavior yet there is limited research on who is most affected by defaults and whether this varies based on features of the choice environment. Using administrative data on employer-sponsored retirement accounts linked to...
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structural change from a polluting to a non polluting production sector into the future (ex ante procrastination). The … consequences of ex ante procrastination are discussed for three different behavioral patterns. I show that, depending on the … assumed behavioral regime, ex ante procrastination may lead to ex post procrastination, i.e. de facto no investment in the non …
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The model of time-inconsistent procrastination by O'Donoughe and Rabin shows that individuals who are not aware of …
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lead to procrastination of retirement planning and old-age provision. Empirical evidence based on the Bertelsmann Stiftung …
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Defaults have been shown to have a powerful effect on retirement saving behavior yet there is limited research on who is most affected by defaults and whether this varies based on features of the choice environment. Using administrative data on employer-sponsored retirement accounts linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056946
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Procrastination is an almost archetypal phenomenon of human behaviour, the nature and prevalence of which may have … and how agents procrastinate in theory and what the implications of procrastination may be. It is argued that … procrastination is a rational response to present-biased preferences and that the extent of procrastination, and the subsequent …
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Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise … to complete. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of `motivated procrastination'. In a … (motivated procrastination) turns out to be robust to accounting for decision-makers' time preferences and emotional responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487122