This dissertation concerns methods to test whether or not self-control
is costly, the form of temptation, and the affects different assumptions
about costly self-control and temptation have on optimal borrowing
and saving mechanisms. The second chapter shows that costly self-control
and temptation can be differentiated from changing impatience in a
stochastic income consumption-savings environment. The third chapter
describes an experiment to test whether subjects have time inconsistent
preferences, whether self-control is costly, and if so, whether the
cost of self-control is time dependent. The fourth chapter describes
the affects on the optimal borrowing and savings mechanisms that assumptions
about the myopia of temptation and the strength of costly self-control
have.
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about costly self-control and temptation have on optimal borrowing
and saving mechanisms. The second chapter shows that costly self-control
and temptation can be differentiated from changing impatience in a
stochastic income consumption-savings environment. The third chapter
describes an experiment to test whether subjects have time inconsistent
preferences, whether self-control is costly, and if so, whether the
cost of self-control is time dependent. The fourth chapter describes
the affects on the optimal borrowing and savings mechanisms that assumptions
about the myopia of temptation and the strength of costly self-control
have.
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is costly, the form of temptation, and the affects different assumptions
about costly self-control and temptation have on optimal borrowing
and saving mechanisms. The second chapter shows that costly self-control
and temptation can be differentiated from changing impatience in a
stochastic income consumption-savings environment. The third chapter
describes an experiment to test whether subjects have time inconsistent
preferences, whether self-control is costly, and if so, whether the
cost of self-control is time dependent. The fourth chapter describes
the affects on the optimal borrowing and savings mechanisms that assumptions
about the myopia of temptation and the strength of costly self-control
have.
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