their addiction to dollars. Concretely, we try to explain why some countries have been able to avoid certain forms of the … addiction, and examine the evidence on successful de-dollarization …

reducing teenage cigarette consumption if they credibly alter individuals' beliefs about future prices …

A standard model of addictive process is Becker and Murphy's rational addiction' model, which has the key empirical … the inconsistent preferences which are likely to provide a much better platform for understanding the smoking decision. We … per pack of cigarettes should be at least one dollar higher under our formulation than in the rational addiction case …

dysfunctional consequences that does not have its origins in physical addiction. It brings together contributions of leading … arising from physical addiction. Further, the book includes chapters that focus more broadly of definitional and conceptual …