Uphill self-control

By Jawwad Noor, Norio Takeoka. 2010

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This paper extends the theory of temptation and self-control introduced by Gul and Pesendorfer (2001) to allow for increasing marginal costs of resisting temptation, that is, convex self-control costs. It also proves a representation theorem that admits a general class of self-control cost functions. Both models maintain the Order, Continuity, and Set Betweenness axioms but violate Independence.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Drew Fudenberg
2. David K. Levine
3. Richard H. Thaler
4. Adair Morse
5. Juan D. Carrillo
6. Isabelle Brocas
7. Lars A. Stole
8. Alexander K. Koch

In General Decision Sciences

1. Drew Fudenberg
2. David K. Levine
3. Richard H. Thaler
4. Adair Morse
5. Juan D. Carrillo
6. Isabelle Brocas
7. Alexander K. Koch
8. Julia Nafziger

In Safety Research

1. Drew Fudenberg
2. David K. Levine

Citations in the corpus

• Timing and Self-Control (2012, methodology): “In the context of two-period models, Noor and Takeoka (2010a) developed axioms for choices on menus that allow convex costs of self-control, and then (Noor and Takeoka (2010b)) developed a more restrictive representation that they extended to multiple periods and temptation by future payoffs.”