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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Rational addiction"”.
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Essays in political economy
… in dynamic elections and the second is addiction in online video games. I show how the power of economic incentives shapes phenomena that are outside the realm of traditional economics. Chapter 1 analyzes the incentives of politicians when their behavior in office affects the severity of …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… this question through the lens of the theory of rational addiction in the context of internet pornography consumption. The result documents strong empirical support for the rational addiction hypothesis, which suggests that consumers of internet pornography are forward-looking and make …
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Akratic Homo Economicus: Does the Neoclassical Economic Theory "Rational Agent" Assumption Accurately Depict Human Nature?
… theory's core suppositions is a representative "rational agent" or <em>homo economicus</em>, whose self-interest and optimal choices, which are in state of equilibrium and efficiency are rooted in utility maximization of his well-being. Even though neoclassical economics claims to accurately …
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Understanding the impact of gambling with special reference to Thailand
… is then centred on the 2-3 digit lottery. The rational addiction model is tested for the case of the 2-3 digit lottery. In the addiction framework, the 2-3 digit lottery is found to be an addictive goods and the addiction is “myopic addiction”. This finding is confirmed by Instrumental Variable …
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Tag based Bayesian latent class models for movies : economic theory reaches out to big data science
… response to this, models of linear optimization, rational addiction and Bayesian learning have been applied to better understand consumer decision- making, belief formation and revision. While valuable, these approaches do not lend themselves to forming verifiable hypothesis for the critical …
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The Psycho-Economic Model of Ecstasy Consumption and Related Consequences: A multi-site study with community samples
A Psycho-Economic Model of Ecstasy Consumption and Related Consequences: A Multi-Site Study with Community Samples By Arbi Ben Abdallah The consumption of mind-altering drugs is well recognized as a complex behavior entailing many different etiological precursors. To understand its complexity, drug …