the economics domain. In the experiment we find that: 1) traditional economic models based on discounting alone cannot … association between 'irrational' choices. -- time preference ; time sequences ; negative discounting …In this paper we formulate and investigate experimentally a model of how individuals choose between time sequences of …

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 … field experiment examines the extent to which this is the case. At different points in time, the same participants allocated …

criminals have short time horizons, then it is hard to imagine punishment acting as a key deterrent. This paper provides the … first empirical investigation of the link between time preferences and criminal behavior. Our study is made possible by … access to a unique Swedish longitudinal dataset that links individual measures of time preferences collected at age 13 to …