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resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
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assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the …
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Based on the Ramsey equation and an ethically motivated rejection of pure utility time discount, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concentrates on the use of the elasticity of marginal utility η in the intergenerational social welfare function. We support this position by...
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It is not immediately clear how to discount distant-future events, like climate change, when the distant-future discount rate itself is uncertain. The so-called “Weitzman-Gollier puzzle” is the fact that two seemingly symmetric and equally plausible ways of dealing with uncertain future...
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possibly millennia to the future. To reconcile the discounting of such far-distant impacts and realism of the shorter …
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) actions, the more weight they receive. If uncertainty is endogenous to the decision process, the new rationale for discounting …
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as do the principal and he obtains full property rights to the future returns. With geometric discounting, there would be …-hyperbolic discounting, the optimal subsidy is unrelated to this level. With discount rates that are strictly decreasing in relative time …
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effects both in reduced-form as well as in the form of structural estimates of a quasi-hyperbolic discounting function to …
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We compare different designs that have been used to test for an impact of time horizon on discounting, using real … declining (hyperbolic) discounting, but with other designs find constant or increasing discounting. As a whole, the data are not … consistent with any of these usual candidate discounting assumptions, and they also imply a violation of transitivity. The …
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market. Even though we allow for a general-hyperbolic specification (which has exponential discounting as a special case …
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