Competition alleviates present bias in task completion

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-64946-3_19MaRDI QIDQ2692288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aditya Saraf, Anna R. Karlin, Jamie Morgenstern

Publication date 21 March 2023

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13741

zbMATH Keywords

behavioral economicsincentive designpresent bias

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internet topics (68M11) Applications of game theory (91A80) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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