Stephen E Weinberg, Visiting Instructor

Please note: Stephen has left the "Economics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Art Building
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~sweinber/

Specialties:

1229
Microeconomics

Research Interests: competition in addictive industries, consumer choice in Medicare, bounded rationality, life-cycle modeling

Working Papers

1. S.E. Weinberg, Advertising to Overlapping Generations of Addictive Consumers in the Cigarette Industry (November, 2007) [pdf]  [abs]

Recent Publications

1. with Xavier Gabaix, David Laibson, Guillermo Moloche, Costly Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model, American Economic Review, vol. 96 no. 4 (September, 2006), pp. 1043-1068  [abs]
2. with George-Marios Angeletos, David Laibson, Andrea Repetto, and Jeremy Tobacman., The Hyperbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 15 no. 3 (Summer, 2001), pp. 47-68

Publications: with Xavier Gabaix, David Laibson, and Guillermo Moloche. "Costly Information Acquisition: Experimental Analysis of a Boundedly Rational Model." American Economic Review, September 2006. with George-Marios Angeletos, David Laibson, Andrea Repetto, and Jeremy Tobacman. "The Hyperbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation." Journal of Economic Perspectives. Summer 2001. Vol 15(3): 47-68.