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Gender power, fertility, and family policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2012
show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. -- fertility ; family policy ; household allocation …
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Complexity and hyperbolic discounting
Enke, Benjamin; Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Oprea, Ryan - 2023
present bias are (not) confounded by complexity. …
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Expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
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Macroeconomic consequences of distributional conflicts
Schäfer, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2007
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Artificial time inconsistency as a remedy for the race to the bottom
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (contributor);  … - 2005
A long-standing concern in the literature has been that household mobility implies a serious threat to the viability of redistributive taxation. This paper considers the effects of deferred integration of migrants into the redistributive system of the target country. In a model of symmetric...
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Buy coal! : deposit markets prevent carbon leakage
Harstad, Bård - 2010
If a coalition of countries implements climate policies, nonparticipants tend to consume more, pollute more, and invest too little in renewable energy sources. In response, the coalition's equilibrium policy distorts trade and it is not time consistent. By adding a market for the right to...
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Climate policy without commitment
Golombek, Rolf; Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2010
Climate mitigation policy should be imposed over a long period, and spur development of new technologies in order to make stabilization of green house gas concentrations economically feasible. The government may announce current and future policy packages that stimulate current R&D in...
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Public investment as commitment
Gerlagh, Reyer; Liski, Matti - 2011
returns removes the bias and implements the standard cost-benefit requirement. We show that such a stand-alone rule has no …
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Investment policy for time-inconsistent discounters
Harstad, Bård - 2013
This paper explores how a principal with time-inconsistent preferences invests optimally in technology or capital. If the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future savings and decrease investments in the strategic...
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Time inconsistency and retirement choice
Scott, Findley, T.; Caliendo, Frank - 2015
Hyperbolic discounting with naiveté is widely believed to provide a better explanation than exponential discounting of why people borrow so much and why they wait so long to save for retirement. We reach a different set of conclusions. We show that if financial planning is enriched to include...
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