Are opportunities making thieves? Accumulated experimental evidence shows that, when people have the opportunity to cheat, often they take it. Most of the literature on cheating opportunities forces people into a tempting situation where they face a trade-off between money and morality. In our...

We propose a dynamic framework for durable-goods with consumers who have different valuations and an arbitrary number of firms which compete in quantities in each period. Consumers' ability to behave strategically about the timing of consumption differs in the three environments that we analyze....

This paper explores the relationships between overall diet quality and attitudes toward risk and time using a general population survey. Our survey combines (i) a state-of-the-art food frequency questionnaire with (ii) a choice-based preference module to elicit individual risk and time...

A group of decision makers simultaneously make contributions towards a green fund that reduces the future probability of a climate catastrophe. We derive the theoretical predictions of the effects on contributions arising from 'behavioral parameters' such as loss aversion and present-bias;...