The concept of willingness-to-pay (WTP) has attracted the attention of marketeers because of its use-fulness in many applications. Nowadays one aims at describing the market heterogeneity by estimating the distribution of WTP. However, this poses several problems that have been discussed...

We consider a representative-agent equilibrium model where the consumer has quasi-geometric discounting and cannot commit to future actions. We restrict attention to a parametric class for preferences and technology and solve for time-consistent competitive equilibria globally and explicitly. We...

Are foundations of models of ambiguity-sensitive preferences too flawed to be usefully applied to economic models?  Al-Najjar and Weinstein (2009) say such is indeed the case.  In this paper, first, we point out that many of the key arguments by Al-Najjar and Weinstein do not apply to quite a...