Objective – This study looks at the addiction behaviour of Pokémon Go players in Malaysia. Its purpose is to identify … Pokémon Go players in Malaysia; (2) to determine the relationships among addiction behaviour, awareness, and attitude of … the addiction behaviour of Pokémon Go players in terms of their awareness and attitude. Using the Theory of Planned …

model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and …-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. We construct a …

In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … longevity. I distinguish two types of addiction: perfect and common. Individuals with perfect addiction perfectly control their … addiction. Individuals with common addiction, though otherwise rational and forward looking, fail to fully understand how their …

In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle … longevity. I distinguish two types of addiction: perfect and common. Individuals with perfect addiction perfectly control their … addiction. Individuals with common addiction, though otherwise rational and forward looking, fail to fully understand how their …

incorporates both addiction and social interactions and show that, under certain conditions, social interactions reinforce the … effects of addiction. I also show how the dynamics introduced by addiction can solve the pernicious problem of identifying the …

The milk addiction paradox refers to an empirical finding in which commodities that are typically considered to be non … and when using aggregate data, and it suggests that the AR(2) model typically used in the addiction literature is prone to … produce spurious result in favor of rational addiction. Using both simulated and real data, we show that the milk addiction …

persistence hypothesis, and (ii) to review the theory of addiction with a focus on issues of relevance to the theory of … consumption. In the literature on addiction, two research traditions are discernible: rational addiction and myopic addiction. The …

addiction benefit because they can switch to a less harmful substance, but opponents argue that this could encourage abstainers … to begin using the harm reduction method or even the original addictive good. This paper builds on theories of addiction …

Since the end of the eighties the Becker and Murphy model of rational addiction has been the dominant approach to … estimate addiction effects. A rational addictive consumer, a smoker for instance, is supposed to maximize over the life cycle a … stable utility function and to be fully aware of the future consequences of her addiction and chooses to be an addicted …