We study all theories of justice that disentangle ethical views on intergenerational discounting and intergenerational … inequality. Each “modular” social welfare function is uniquely identified by a time-discounting function—capturing attitudes … properties and establishes the limits of disentangling discounting and inequality. Our theories include as special cases the most …

)actions, the more weight they receive. If uncertainty is endogenous to the decision process, the new rationale for discounting will … preference ; discounting ; uncertainty ; expected utility ; recursive utility ; risk aversion ; intertemporal substitutability …

cycle. Decreasing discounting helps a canonical life-cycle model to explain the household saving puzzles of undersaving when … young and oversaving after retirement. Relative to the model with constant discounting, the model’s fit to consumption and …

discounting of money has been questioned as a measure of time preferences, it continues to be highly relevant in empirical …. We provide evidence that hyperbolic discounting reflects mistakes that are driven by the complexity of evaluating delayed …

market. Even though we allow for a general-hyperbolic specification (which has exponential discounting as a special case … specification) of 8 %. -- present bias ; hyperbolic discounting ; discount rate ; hedonic estimation …

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 …