, structural estimations reveal that this is because agents exhibit present bias in own but not in others' consumption. We show … that very similar differences in present bias are observed in the absence of any interpersonal trade-offs, when agents … decide either for themselves or on behalf of another person. At the individual level, we find that present bias in own …

potential existence of a continental bias in world trade flows on a sample of 182 countries over the period 1990-2006. Using … evidence of an economically significant continental bias in trade. It implies that, other things equal, countries located on …