focus on the fact that lack of information is a potential source of temptation. Indeed lack of information doesn't allow the …

-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one’s vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … at the moment of voting, but not for past selves who anticipate the vote-sale. We also allow keeping or breaking promises … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation …

This paper extends the theory of temptation and self-control introduced by Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) to allow for … increasing marginal costs of resisting temptation, that is, convex self-control costs. It also proves a representation theorem …

temptation and self-control to capture an individual who changes her beliefs so as to become more pessimistic as payoff time …

This paper extends the theory of temptation and self-control introduced by Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) to allow for … increasing marginal costs of resisting temptation, that is, convex self-control costs. It also proves a representation theorem …

Temptation and self-control in intertemporal choice environments are receiving increasing attention in the theoretical … temptation must be repeatedly resisted. This paper fills that gap by reporting data from a novel laboratory study of economic … under temptation. Our data are broadly consistent with theory, with the notable exception that commitment often occurs with …

We propose a theory studying temptation in presence of both externally and internally sanctioned prohibitions. Moral … punishments increase temptation and demand for morality, so that external and internal sanctions are complements. The model helps …

This paper proposes a theory of the relationship between prohibitions and temptation. In presence of self … investigates the relationship between morality and temptation, the individual gains from morality, the interaction between external …

This paper studies optimal nonlinear pricing for a monopolist when consumers' preferences exhibit temptation and self …-control as in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001a). Consumers are subject to temptation inside the store but exercise self-control, and … those foreseeing large self-control costs do not enter the store. Consumers differ in their preferences under temptation …