Incoerenza Dinamica ed Autocontrollo: Proposta per un'Analisi Interdisciplinare di Davide Dragone

Abstract
In the last 25 years, a vast empirical literature has seriously challenged many assumptions on which the standard microeconomic approach is based. Inspired by this evidence, behavioural economics suggests that a research program that integrates the economic, psychological and neuro-scienti.c literature can provide a theory of human decision-making with stronger descriptive, predictive and normative power. This interdisciplinary approach does not necessarily imply abandoning the neoclassical modelling tools and losing analytical tractability. As an example, the evo-lution of the economic theory on intertemporal choice is presented, show-ing that some standard economic assumptions can be viewed as special cases in which self-control and dynamic consistency are always guaranteed.
Keywords: Intertemporal choice; Time inconsistency; Self-control; Dual models; Psychology; Neurosciences.