Search Results - subject:"commitment device"

Labeled loans and human capital investments

Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - In: Journal of development economics 162 (2023), pp. 1-18

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Comment on "Recursive expectations approach in policymaking" by Professor Keiichiro Kobayashi

Miyazaki, Tomomi - In: International journal of economic policy studies 17 (2023) 2, pp. 399-402

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Commitment or concealment? Impacts and use of a portable saving device: Evidence from a field experiment in urban India

Steinert, Janina Isabel; Satish, Rucha Vasumati; Stips, … - 2020

We study the impact of a portable "soft" commitment device on the financial behavior of low-income slum dwellers in …

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You can win by losing! Using self-betting as a commitment device: Evidence from a weight loss program

Hirt-Schierbaum, Linda; Ivets, Maryna - 2020

In this paper we investigate the influence of financial incentives on agents' commitment success who use a self-bet mechanism to overcome their self-control problems. We use results from the theoretical model developed in Hirt-Schierbaum and Ivets (2020) that allows for heuristic bias in agents'...

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You can win by losing! : using self-betting as a commitment device : evidence from a weight loss program

Hirt-Schierbaum, Linda; Ivets, Maryna - 2020

In this paper we investigate the influence of financial incentives on agents’ commitment success who use a self-bet mechanism to overcome their self-control problems. We use results from the theoretical model developed in Hirt-Schierbaum and Ivets (2020) that allows for heuristic bias in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320610

Commitment or concealment? : impacts and use of a portable saving device : evidence from a field experiment in urban India

Steinert, Janina; Satish, Rucha Vasumati; Stips, Felix; … - 2020

We study the impact of a portable "soft" commitment device on the financial behavior of low-income slum dwellers in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220647

Pessimism and overcommitment

Ek, Claes; Samahita, Margaret - 2019

task and a tempting option to surf the internet. Subjects state their willingness-to-pay for a commitment device that … removes the option to surf. The commitment device is then allocated with some probability, thus allowing us to observe the …

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Pessimism and overcommitment

Ek, Claes; Samahita, Margaret - 2019

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Durable goods as commitment devices under quasi-hyperbolic discounting

Kang, Jingoo; Kang, Minwook - In: Journal of mathematical economics 99 (2022), pp. 1-10

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Commitment or concealment? : Impacts and use of a portable saving device: Evidence from a field experiment in urban India

Steinert, Janina; Satish, Rucha Vasumati; Stips, Felix; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 193 (2022), pp. 367-397

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