Purpose - The main purpose of this paper is to determine the discount function which better fits the individuals' preferences through the empirical analysis of the different functions used in the field of intertemporal choice. Design/methodology/approach - After an in-depth revision of the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the main measures of inconsistency in the context of intertemporal choice and to identify the relationships between them (more specifically, the measures by Prelec, Takahashi and Rohde). In effect, Thaler (1981), awarded the Nobel Prize in...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a deeper knowledge of the CAPM in the framework of company valuation based our reasoning on the differentiation between the so-called purely financial investor and economic risk investor. Our argument is that CAPM is not a good reference to be applied in...