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Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption : the equal-sacrifice approach applied fot the Czech Republic
Opatrny, Matej; Scasny, Milan - 2021
We provide the first estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption, η, for a post-transition economy in ….42 within the study period that covers 2005-2019. Moreover, the estimate of elasticity of marginal utility of consumption …
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New estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption for Europe : implications for the social discount rate
Ščasnýa, Milan; Opatrný, Matěj - 2022
We provide the first estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption, μ, for Europe and for thirty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461083
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The elasticity of marginal utility of income for distributional weighting and social discounting : a meta-analysis
Acland, Daniel; Greenberg, David H. - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 14 (2023) 2, pp. 386-405
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Revisiting, from a Frischian point of view, the relationship between elasticities of intratemporal and intertemporal substitution
Biørn, Erik - 2017
, inter alia, Frisch (1959), attempts to give some clarifications and provides elements of a synthesis. The income elasticity …, the wealth elasticity of the marginal utility of wealth, are key concepts. Three cases with additive preferences are …
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Cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism
Nesje, Frikk - 2022
I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation’s preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041365
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Cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism
Nesje, Frikk - 2020 - This version: February 27, 2020
Decisions with long-term consequences require comparing utility derived from present consumption to future welfare. But can we infer socially relevant intertemporal preferences from saving behavior? I allow for a decomposition of the present generation's preference for the next generation into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170829
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How do households discount over centuries? : evidence from Singapore's private housing market
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016
centuries from today is new to the empirical literature on discounting and, with the appropriate risk adjustment, of relevance …
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Embedded discounting
Sneum, Daniel Møller; Soysal, Emilie Rosenlund; Nesje, … - 2023
forecasted energy prices. Using Danish guidelines as a case study, we explore the discounting assumptions in these input prices …
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Discounting for climate change
Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J.; Yohe, Gary W. - 2009
numerically just as important in considerations of anthropogenic climate change. The elasticity of the marginal utility with …. -- Social cost of carbon ; climate change ; pure time preference ; risk aversion ; inequity aversion ; income elasticity ; time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799702
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Discounting for climate change
Anthoff, David (contributor); Tol, Richard S. J. (contributor) - 2009
numerically just as important in considerations of anthropogenic climate change. The elasticity of the marginal utility with …. -- Social cost of carbon ; climate change ; pure time preference ; risk aversion ; inequity aversion ; income elasticity ; time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800780