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current income is less than the long-run average by a certain margin, exhibit hyperbolic discounting. The discount rate of …
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We consider a two-period model with two sellers and one buyer in which the efficient outcome calls for the buyer to purchase one unit from each seller in each period. We show that when the buyer's valuations between periods are linked by switching costs and at least one seller is financially...
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and combining those signals with priors to form posteriors. These posterior expectations exhibit as-if discounting: agents … forecasting (e.g., those with more intelligence) exhibit less discounting. Agents with more domain-relevant experience exhibit … less discounting. Older agents exhibit less discounting (except those with cognitive decline). Agents who are encouraged to …
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Many discounting choices affect both the decision maker as well as others. The interpersonal nature of these choices is …
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A novel theory of time discounting is proposed in which future consumption is less valuable than present consumption … sub-additive discounting …
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uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as … discounting under a disentanglement of risk aversion from aversion to intertemporal substitution. The paper characterizes the … of the Ramsey discounting formula that takes into account confidence into future growth estimates and a measure of …
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