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Shedding light on the appropriateness of the (high) gasoline tax level in Germany
Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - In: Economics of Transportation 3 (2014) 3, pp. 189-210
Germany imposes an energy tax of 0.65€/l on gasoline which is one of the highest tax rates across countries. The effective tax is even higher when accounting for the consumption tax levied on top of the energy tax. Answers to the question whether such a high tax level is justified on...
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U.S. Fiscal Policies and Priorities for Long-Run Sustainability
Mühleisen, Martin; Towe, Christopher M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper presents an overview of recent U.S. fiscal developments and discusses possible implications of the sharp turn around in the government’s fiscal position. Against this back ground, it also reviews key policy challenges that will need to be addressed to cope with the mounting...
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Effects of Tax Depreciation Rules on Firms' Investment Decisions: A Comparison of European Transition Countries
Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 52-55
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Time Consistency: Stationarity and Time Invariance
Halevy, Yoram - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
the view that present-bias preferences are the main source of time inconsistent choices. …
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Anticipations and Endogenous Present Bias
Galperti, Simone; Strulovici, Bruno - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2015
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The Evolution of Decision and Experienced Utilities
Robson, Arthur; Samuelson, Larry - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2008
Psychologists report that people make choices on the basis of "decision utilities" that routinely overestimate the "experienced utility" consequences of these choices. This paper argues that this dichotomy between decision and experienced utilities may be the solution to an evolutionary design...
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Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
present bias and exponential discounting predicts best, especially when both parameters are used. …
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Time preferences and the management of coral reef fisheries
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth; Saunders, Daniel Kaiser - In: Ecological Economics 100 (2014) C, pp. 130-139
health, and preferred marine resource management approaches. We use a βδ-model to identify discounting and present bias … divers had similar distributions of IDFs and present bias; overall 66% of interviewees were non-biased, 22% future …-biased, and 12% present-biased. IDFs and present bias were able to predict management preferences after controlling for …
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Which measures of time preference best predict outcomes: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen; Carpenter, Jeffrey; Götte, Lorenz; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 308-320
forced to compete head-to-head. Our results suggest that the now familiar (β, δ) formulation of present bias and exponential … discounting predicts best, especially when both parameters are used. …
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An extension of quasi-hyperbolic discounting to continuous time
Pan, Jinrui; Webb, Craig S.; Zank, Horst - In: Games and Economic Behavior 89 (2015) C, pp. 43-55
Two-Stage Exponential (TSE) discounting, the model developed here, generalises exponential discounting in a … parsimonious way. It can be seen as an extension of Quasi-Hyperbolic discounting to continuous time. A TSE discounter has a … calendar time, TSE discounting captures time consistent behaviour. If it is expressed in waiting time, TSE discounting captures …
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