We model agents who use self-deception to rationalize and justify actions that can eventually lead them into temptation. Formally, we extend Gul and Pesendorfer’s (2001) framework to three time periods and obtain a special functional form for the temptation utility at the interim stage. Our representation portrays an agent who is tempted (i) to relax her normative attitude towards future indulg...

We describe SAFL+: a call-by-value, parallel language in the style of ML which combines imperative, concurrent and functional programming. Synchronous channels allow communication between parallel threads and π-calculus style channel passing is provided. SAFL+ is designed for hardware description and synthesis; a silicon compiler, translating SAFL+ into RTL-Verilog, has been implemented. By par...

The axioms used to characterize the generalized Gini social evaluation orderings for one-dimensional distributions are extended to the multidimensional attributes case. A social evaluation ordering is shown to have a two-stage aggregation representation if these axioms and a separability assumption are satisfied. In the first stage, the distributions of each attribute are aggregated using gener...

In the functional regression model where the responses are curves new tests for the functional form of the regression and the variance function are proposed, which are based on a stochastic process estimating L2-distances. Our approach avoids the explicit estimation of the functional regression and it is shown that normalized versions of the proposed test statistics converge weakly. The finite ...