人们不要求承诺装置，因为它们可能不起作用

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106756

Ryan Westphal

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摘要

现实市场中对纯粹承诺的需求很低，这是一个难题。一种可能的解释是，个人没有意识到自己目前的偏差和对承诺的需求。我在一个新颖的情境--志愿服务--中检验了感知到的时际不一致性与承诺需求之间的关系。我进行了一项实验，成功地纠正了受试者对其当前偏差的看法，结果发现这种意识的提高并没有增加对承诺的需求。这种对承诺的低需求并不是由感知到的当前偏差的缺乏驱动的，而是受试者准确地认为，即使提供了承诺水平，他们也可能无法坚持到底。

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People do not demand commitment devices because they might not work

Low demand for pure commitment in real markets presents a puzzle. A possible explanation is that individuals are unaware of their present bias and their need for commitment. I test the relationship between perceived intertemporal inconsistency and demand for commitment in a novel context, volunteering. I run an experiment that successfully corrects subjects’ beliefs about their present bias and find that this increased awareness does not increase demand for commitment. This low demand for commitment is not driven by a perceived lack of present bias, but rather subjects’ accurate belief that they may fail to follow through, even with the offered level of commitment.

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

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3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.