行为公共经济学：非标准决策者情况下的福利和政策分析

Behavioral Public Economics:Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-standard Decision Makers

本文有两个目的。首先,我们讨论了新近出现的几种福利分析方法,这些分析方法是在非标准(行为经济学)的消费者选择假设下进行的。这也为行为公共经济学提供了一个分析基础。其次,通过回顾行为经济学对诸如储蓄、成瘾现象和公共产品等方面的政策问题的研究,我们阐述了这些分析方法在处理实际问题中的应用。我们认为,尽管行为公共经济学的文献仍然处在蹒跚学步的阶段,但这些文献已经从根本上改变了我们对各个领域的公共政策的理解。

This paper has two goals.First,we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard('behavioral') assumptions concerning consumer choice.This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics.Second,we illustrate applications of these approaches by surveying behavioral studies of policy problems involving saving,addiction,and public goods.We argue that the literature on behavioral public economics,though in its infancy, has already fundamentally changed our understanding of public policy in each of these domains.