Habit formation with threshold adjustment: Addiction may imply complex dynamicsG.FeichtingerauthorA.PrskawetzauthorW.HeroldauthorP.ZinnerauthorA time-discrete descriptive model of habit formation is presented. Addictive behaviour is damped by a threshold which adapts itself to the habit. This simple framework is able to explain periodic, quasi-periodic as well as chaotic consumption patterns of addictive consumers. It turns out that both a high adjustment rate and a steep consumption function favour complex (chaotic) patterns.1995-06SpringerArticle