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Temptation in Vote-Selling: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines

Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen G.; Ravanilla, Nico; … - CESifo - 2014

-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one’s vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation … about their vote-selling temptation. …

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Tangible temptation in the social dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control

Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Riener, Gerhard; Wollbrant, Conny - European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) - 2013

better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public good game with …

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Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control

Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Riener, Gerhard; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public good game with …

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Re-Evaluating the Role of Energy Efficiency Standards: A Time-Consistent Behavioral Economics Approach

Tsvetanov, Tsvetan; Segerson, Kathleen - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

-consistent behavioral model. We adapt the model of temptation and self-control of Gul and Pesendorfer (2001, 2004) to the context of the … purchase of energyusing durable goods. Our results suggest that (i) temptation or self-control might be a contributing factor … consumer choice that stem from temptation, and (iii) in the presence of temptation, a policy that combines standards with a …

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Moral firmness

Shalvi, Shaul; Leiser, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 400-407

Firm moral judgment deems dishonest acts as categorically wrong, and considers any self-serving justification for them as further dishonesty. People, however, commonly use self-serving justifications in order to feel honest even as they behave dishonestly, indicating reduced moral firmness. We...

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"Thou Shalt Not Covet ...": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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 …

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For a Few Cents More: Why Supersize Unhealthy Food?

Dobson, Paul W.; Gerstner, Eitan - In: Marketing Science 29 (2010) 4, pp. 770-778

Health-care experts believe that increases in portion sizes served by food vendors contribute to the obesity epidemic. This paper shows that food vendors can profit handsomely by using supersizing strategies where regular portion sizes are priced sufficiently high to discourage price-conscious...

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The Effects of Temptation on the Optimal Provision of Education

Lee, Soohyung - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2005

there is a loss from taxation, government intervention is needed only if the level of temptation is sufficiently high. For … high levels of temptation, free compulsory education or vouchers are optimal, whereas price subsidies may be optimal for … intermediate levels of temptation. …

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An axiomatic model of 'cold feet'

Epstein, Larry G.; Kopylov, Igor - University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research … - 2007

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

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Re-evaluating the role of energy efficiency standards: A behavioral economics approach

Tsvetanov, Tsvetan; Segerson, Kathleen - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (2013) 2, pp. 347-363

presents a welfare analysis of energy policies that is based on a behavioral model of temptation and self-control, introduced … by Gul and Pesendorfer [23,24]. We find that, in the presence of temptation, (i) Pigovian taxes alone do not yield a …

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