corresponding demand for commitment can be observed even if individuals do not exhibit horizon-specific discounting. In addition …, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor …

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 …

imposing any structural assumption on the instantaneous utility, intertemporal utility or the discounting functions. We find … assumption that discounting is consistent across domains can lead to non-negligible prediction errors in models involving non …

it is quite under-explored in the economics domain. We find that: 1) traditional economic models based on discounting … is allowed; 2) our model, despite considering only a specific (exponential) form of discounting, can explain the data …' around the basic predictions of discounting theories: the deviations are not random and there are clear systematic patterns …