Costly Self-Control and Limited Willpower
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- Meng-Yu Liang & Simon Grant & Sung-Lin Hsieh, 2020. "Costly self-control and limited willpower," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 70(3), pages 607-632, October.
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: temptation; self-control; willpower;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIC-2019-01-14 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-NEU-2019-01-14 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2019-01-14 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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