The Temptation and Fall (Play 5)

Predicting the Fall of Dominoes Milestone 5

By studying the physics behind toppling dominoes we are able to create a theory to predict the time for the dominoes to fall and if necessary, find an arrangement of dominoes that will optimize the topple time. The conservation of energy is used and all interactions between the dominoes are neglected except for the initial impact. Using the number of dominoes, the geometry of the chain, and the...

The Value of Temptation

There is an implicit assumption in electronic commerce that induces the buyers to believe that their deals will be handled appropriately. However, after a seller has already committed to a buyer, he may be tempted by several requests though he will not be able to supply them all. We analyze markets in which a finite set of automated buyers interacts repeatedly with a finite set of automated sel...

Temptation and Self-Control†

In a two period decision problem, we study individuals who, in the second period, may be tempted by ex ante inferior choices. Individuals have preferences over sets of alternatives that represent the feasible choices in the second period. Our axioms yield a representation that identifies the individual’s commitment ranking, her temptation ranking, and her cost of selfcontrol. We provide an axio...

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Temptation and Revealed Preference

Gul and Pesendorfer [9] model the static behavior of an agent who ranks menus prior to the experience of temptation. This paper models the dynamic behavior of an agent whose ranking of menus itself is subject to temptation. The representation for the agent’s dynamically inconsistent choice behavior views him as possessing a dynamically consistent view of what choices he “should”make (a normativ...