I derive a social planner's optimal information design in an environment with quasi-hyperbolic discounting consumers …

This paper empirically and jointly analyses the relations between risk aversion, standard time discounting, present … bias, and loss aversion and household stated adoption of low to high stake energy efficiency technologies (EETs) (light … emitting diodes (LEDs), energy efficient appliances, and retrofit measures). The analysis relies on a large representative …

Most evidence of hyperbolic discounting is based on violations of either stationarity or time consistency as observed … discounting is a plausible explanation for choice reversals only if violations of stationarity and time consistency overlap. Our … conclude that when incomes fluctuate, one can only identify hyperbolic discounting by eliciting violations of both stationarity …