This paper examines how a government should intervene when agents make, for different reasons, choices that have long term detrimental effects on their survival prospects. We consider an economy where some agents make risky choices (here sin good consumption) out of myopia, and regret their choices later on, whereas other agents make, because of their impatience, the same risky choices, which they never regret. We argue that, in the first-best, a government should only interfere with behaviors that agents regret, but not with other behaviors. In the second-best, asymmetric information and redistributive concerns imply interference not only with myopic behaviors, but also with impatience-based behaviors. Finally, we introduce heterogeneity i...
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation present consumption cre-ating additional c...
This paper develops a theory of policy myopia. Policy myopia arises when rational voters set perform...
This article aims to integrate temptation preferences into the theory of optimal taxation with heter...
This paper examines how a government should intervene when agents make, for different reasons, choic...
This paper examines how a government should intervene when agents make choices having long-term detr...
This paper examines how a government should intervene when agents make choices having long-term detr...
Among the rationales for social security, there is the fact that some people have to be forced to sa...
This paper analyzes the pattern of consumption taxes in a two period model with habit formation and ...
In this Essay I review six behavioral challenges to optimal savings at the individual and collective...
This paper derives the optimal pension and tax parameters in a society where individuals differ in t...
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This paper shows that the combination of habit formation – present consumption creating additional c...
This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that study pension design with myopic individua...
Many people are unable or unwilling to spend the resources necessary to look beyond the short-term a...
Preferences, ability, and personality predict a wide range of economic outcomes. I establish a mappi...
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation present consumption cre-ating additional c...
This paper develops a theory of policy myopia. Policy myopia arises when rational voters set perform...
This article aims to integrate temptation preferences into the theory of optimal taxation with heter...
This paper examines how a government should intervene when agents make, for different reasons, choic...
This paper examines how a government should intervene when agents make choices having long-term detr...
This paper examines how a government should intervene when agents make choices having long-term detr...
Among the rationales for social security, there is the fact that some people have to be forced to sa...
This paper analyzes the pattern of consumption taxes in a two period model with habit formation and ...
In this Essay I review six behavioral challenges to optimal savings at the individual and collective...
This paper derives the optimal pension and tax parameters in a society where individuals differ in t...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75475/1/j.1530-9134.2008.00186.x.pd
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation – present consumption creating additional c...
This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that study pension design with myopic individua...
Many people are unable or unwilling to spend the resources necessary to look beyond the short-term a...
Preferences, ability, and personality predict a wide range of economic outcomes. I establish a mappi...
This paper shows that the combination of habit formation present consumption cre-ating additional c...
This paper develops a theory of policy myopia. Policy myopia arises when rational voters set perform...
This article aims to integrate temptation preferences into the theory of optimal taxation with heter...