Dragone, Davide
(2009)
On the non existence of cyclical food-consumption patterns in a model of non-addictive eating.
Bologna:
Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE,
p. 7.
DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4583.
In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE
(663).
ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract
In a paper previously published in this journal, Levy (2002) [Levy A., 2002, Rational eating: can it lead to overweightness or underweightness? Journal of Health Economics 21, 887.899] presents a model of rational non-addictive eating that is claimed to explain cyclical food-consumption patterns where binges and strict diets alternate. I show that the model admits no oscillation at all, as the unique internal steady state has saddle point stability.
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