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weighting functions for the risky prospects placed 6 and 12 months into the future. The experiment is used to test whether … decision errors can explain or be highly correlated with hyperbolic discounting and non-linear (inverse-S-shaped) probability … weighting. We find evidence that decision errors are strongly correlated with hyperbolic discounting but do not find that …
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contribute to our understanding of these issues by postulating a model of income uncertainty within a hyperbolic discounting …/value In traditional exponential discounting, the marginal rate of substitution of consumption between two points depends only …, hyperbolic discounting better fits the data. The authors model choice under uncertainty and focus on the costs caused when …
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the resource). In a discrete-time quasihyperbolic discounting framework with no commitment device, and using only generic …
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is compared with hyperbolic discounting within a standard life-cycle setting of consumption and savings. We show …-equation from the hyperbolic discounting model with an additional adjustment factor. In the numerical section it is shown that the … not possible with a hyperbolic discounting model. …
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discounting of money has been questioned as a measure of time preferences, it continues to be highly relevant in empirical …. We provide evidence that hyperbolic discounting reflects mistakes that are driven by the complexity of evaluating delayed …
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preference reversals arecommonly interpreted as contradicting constant discounting. This interpretation is correctonly if … baseline consumption to which the outcomes are added, remains constant over time.The difficulty with measuring discounting when … discounted. In this paper we propose a way to disentangle thetwo effects, which allows us to draw conclusions about discounting …
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