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, quasi-hyperbolic discounting as well as subjective failure probability over future payments. We investigate the predictive …
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Research has shown that procrastination has signicant adverse effects on individuals, including lower savings and poorer health. Procrastination is typically modeled as resulting from present bias. In this paper we study an alternative: excessively optimistic beliefs about future demands on an...
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In this paper I propose a time-consistent method of discounting hyperbolically and apply it to three canonical … then compare results with those for conventional exponential discounting using the normalization that both methods provide …, time-consistent hyperbolic discounting leads always to a steady state of maximum yield, or, if the environment enters the …
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In this paper I propose a time-consistent method of discounting hyperbolically that contains the discount rate implied … by Gamma discounting as a special case. I apply the discounting method to three canonical environmental problems: (i … with those for conventional exponential discounting using the normalization that both methods provide the same present …
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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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We investigate whether temporal preferences expressed as a sum of discounted consumption utilities can be derived from a welfare representation in the form of a sum of discounted total utilities. We find that a consumption-based representation in the usual exponential form corresponds to...
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The folk theorems for infinitely repeated games with discounting presume that the discount rate between two successive … periods is constant. Following the literature on quasi-exponential or hyperbolic discounting, I model the repeated interaction … between two or more decision makers in a way that allows present-biased discounting where the discount factor between two …
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