Search Results - subject:"precommitment"

Naïve and Capricious: Stumbling into the ring of self-control conflict

Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

agent to act sub-optimally. The agent holds costly pre-commitment technology to avoid the conflict altogether and may decide … whether to procure pre-commitment or to confront the visceral influence. We examine naïve expectations for the strength of the … temptation, and so mistakenly forego pre-commitment. Our analysis reveals conditions under which higher willpower—and lower …

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Quantity Precommitment and Price Matching

Tumennasan, Norovsambuu - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2011

We revisit the question of whether price matching is anti-competitive in a capacity constrained duopoly setting. We show that the effect of price matching depends on capacity. Specifically, price matching has no effect when capacity is relatively low, but it benefits the firms when capacity is...

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Precommitted Government Spending and Partisan Politics

Watkins, William; Bohn, Henning - CESifo - 2011

This paper analyzes government commitments to ongoing spending programs that require future outlays. Spending commitments are important for understanding partisan politics because they constrain future governments. In a model with one government good, a “stubborn liberal” policy maker can...

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Nai͏̈ve and capricious : stumbling into the ring of self-control conflict

Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny - 2011

agent to act sub-optimally. The agent holds costly pre-commitment technology to avoid the conflict altogether and may decide … whether to procure pre-commitment or to confront the visceral influence. We examine naive expectations for the strength of the … temptation, and so mistakenly forego pre-commitment. Our analysis reveals conditions under which higher willpower - and lower …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315478

Cournot duopoly and environmental R&D under regulator's precommitment to an emissions tax

Ouchida, Yasunori; Goto, Daisaku - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 4/6, pp. 324-331

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Pre-commitment vs. time-consistent strategies for the generalized multi-period portfolio optimization with stochastic cash flows

Zhou, Zhongbao; Xiao, Helu; Yin, Jialing; Zeng, Ximei; … - In: Insurance / Mathematics & economics 68 (2016), pp. 187-202

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Better than pre-commitment mean-variance portfolio allocation strategies : a semi-self-financing Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation approach

Dang, Duy Minh; Forsyth, Peter - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 250 (2016) 3, pp. 827-841

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Present-biased preferences and money demand

Millemaci, Emanuele; Waldmann, Robert - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 164 (2016) 2, pp. 187-207

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The effects of pre-ordering and behavioral nudges on National School Lunch Program participants' food item selection

Miller, Gabrielle F.; Gupta, Sonam; Kropp, Jaclyn; … - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 55 (2016), pp. 4-16

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Precommitment and equilibrium investment strategies for defined contribution pension plans under a jump-diffusion model

Sun, Jingyun; Li, Zhongfei; Zeng, Yan - In: Insurance / Mathematics & economics 67 (2016), pp. 158-172

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