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. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals …
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show that the assumption of positive discounting is not always true. The presented experimental study shows how a decrease … in probability increases the chances of negative discounting. According to the results, the expected large, uncertain … in the frequency of negative discounting due to increased uncertainty. The results of the study broaden the existing …
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-economic characteristics and also meaningful measures of individual discounting behavior, namely, general patience and impulsivity. This … aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking. The analysis is … preference for both, mothers and fathers. That is, an increasing level of patience of parents is associated with a lower smoking …
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preference reversals arecommonly interpreted as contradicting constant discounting. This interpretation is correctonly if … baseline consumption to which the outcomes are added, remains constant over time.The difficulty with measuring discounting when … discounted. In this paper we propose a way to disentangle thetwo effects, which allows us to draw conclusions about discounting …
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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. …
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