Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185768 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 98
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
I derive a social planner\'s optimal information design in an environment with quasi-hyperbolic discounting consumers without commitment. Consumption induces instantaneous utility, but unknown delayed cost. Consumers may or may not acquire additional costless information on the cost parameter. The planner\'s optimal signal can be interpreted as an incentive compatible consumption recommendation whenever the cost parameter is below some cut-off. Welfare strictly exceeds the one under full information. I characterize distributional conditions under which welfare attains first best.
Subjects: 
bayesian persuasion
present bias
hyperbolic discounting
rational inattention
JEL: 
D01
D18
D62
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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