• Consumption and Wage Humps in a Life-Cycle Model with Education 

      Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus; Seifried, Frank Thomas; Steffensen, Mogens (2015-02-24)
      The observed hump-shaped life-cycle pattern in individuals’ consumption cannot be explained by the classical consumption-savings model. The consensus explanation is that the hump is caused by constraints and unspanned ...
    • Consumption Habits and Humps 

      Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus; Seifried, Frank Thomas; Wagner, Sebastian (2015-07-10)
      We show that the optimal consumption of an individual over the life cycle can have the hump shape (inverted U-shape) observed empirically if the preferences of the individual exhibit internal habit formation. In the absence ...
    • Obfuscation and Rational Inattention in Digitalized Markets 

      Janssen, Aljoscha; Kasinger, Johannes (2021-02-05)
      This paper studies the behavior of competing firms in a duopoly with rational inattentive consumers. Firms play a sequential game in which they decide to obfuscate their individual prices before competing on price. ...