of impatience measure the same behavioral characteristic. We conduct experiments in which we elicit discount rates using …

The relationship between temporary terms of trade shocks and household saving in developing countries is examined. It … is first shown that, from a theoretical standpoint, this relationship is ambiguous: private saving may rise or fall in … private saving to transitory terms of trade shocks. …

what drives saving in Latin America. The studies cover Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela and … span a variety of topics ranging from assessing the impact of financial liberalization on saving to determining the role of … terms of trade shocks. Many of the studies also employ new data sources, that provide a better understanding of the saving …

gender, as well as field experiments. Finally, we discuss applications of contests and suggest directions for future research. …

This is a very draft version of the report "The random-lottery incentive system. Can p~1 experiments deductions be … "certain-uncertain" inconsistency, the deductions from the random-lottery incentive experiments, those include the certain …

The social utility to be optimized is a generalized form of a preference depending additively on consumption at the … different dates of the planning period. The optimization b rattrirted to a set of admissible growth paths defined by production-investment-consumption …