Browsing Working Papers by JEL Classification "D11"
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Consumption and Wage Humps in a Life-Cycle Model with Education
(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
(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
(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. ...