This paper analyzes self-control problems in intertemporal consumption of a sin good where current consumption imposes a negative externality on one's future selves due to the existence of present-biased preferences. We introduce the negative externality dubbed 'internality', which is augmented...

In this paper we seek to answer the question: why governments engage in mass killing? Tullock (1974) gives gain or avoidance of loss as the motive. We construct a three-stage theoretic framework to explain the choice of a ruler of a country. The conditions that must be met for mass killing...