Judging Experimental Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency

Dynamic Inconsistency in Food Choice: Experimental Evidence from a Food Desert

We conduct a natural field experiment with over 200 customers at a grocery store to investigate dynamic inconsistency and the demand for commitment in food choice. Subjects are invited to allocate and re-allocate food items received as part of a grocery delivery program. We observe substantial dynamic inconsistency, as well as a demand for commitment among a non-negligible number of subjects. I...

Judging the evidence.

Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency and the Default Effect in Afghanistan∗

Automatic payroll deductions represent one of the most effective means of increasing savings in developed countries. We design and experimentally evaluate a mobile phone-based automatic payroll deduction system in Afghanistan, a country with limited formal financial infrastructure. We find that employees initially assigned a default contribution rate of 5 percent are 40 percentage points more l...

Naiveté and Sophistication in Dynamic Inconsistency Naiveté and Sophistication in Dynamic Inconsistency

This paper introduces a general framework for dealing with dynamic inconsistency in the context of Markov decision problems. It carefully decouples and examines concepts that are often entwined in the literature: it distinguishes between the decision maker and its various temporal agents, and between the beliefs and intentions of the agents. Classical examples of naiveté and sophistication are ...

Inconsistency Identification in Dynamic Ontologies based on Model Checking

The increasing use of ontologies and the cost of changes support the need to manage the evolution of ontologies. A common kind of error in ontology evolution is the logical contradiction declined as incoherences and inconsistences. In this paper, we propose a new approach to predict and identify the incoherences and inconsistences in the evolution of ontologies based on temporal logic and ontol...