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. …

: hyperbolic discounting and short planning horizons. We show that, in contrast to the commonly accepted argument, in general … (except for the special case of logarithmic utility) a model with hyperbolic discounting is not observationally equivalent to … one with exponential discounting. We also show that our framework implies a hump-shaped saving rate dynamics that is …