Masatlioglu, Yusufcan; Nakajima, Daisuke; Ozdenoren, Emre - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 1, pp. 279-317
This paper provides a behavioral foundation for the willpower as limited cognitive resource model which bridges the standard utility maximization and the Strotz models. Using the agent's ex ante preferences and ex post choices, we derive a representation that captures key behavioral traits of...