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Most studies have not distinguished delay from intervals, so that whether the declining impatience really holds has been an open question. We conducted an experiment that explicitly distinguishes them, and confirmed the declining impatience. This implies that people make dynamically inconsistent...
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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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assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the …
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The discounting of future felicity flows transposes to the intertemporal optimization context the assumption of … a production process stems from a standard problem that now also embeds delay evaluation - discounting; a rationale for …
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We use a simple cost-benefit analysis to derive optimal similarity judgments - addressing the question: when should we expect a decision maker to distinguish between different time periods or different prizes? Our key premise is that cognitive resources are costly and are to be deployed only...
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imposing any structural assumption on the instantaneous utility, intertemporal utility or the discounting functions. We find … assumption that discounting is consistent across domains can lead to non-negligible prediction errors in models involving non …
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importance of this finding by demonstrating that a canonical life-cycle model with decreasing discounting significantly improves … its fit to consumption and asset data relative to the model with constant discounting. …
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We study whether and how time preferences change over the life cycle, exploiting representative long-term panel data. We estimate the age patterns of discount rates from age 25 to 80. In order to identify age effects, we have to disentangle them from cohort and period factors. We address this...
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substantially across studies with reported mean at the value of 0.4. We detect presence of selective reporting in the discounting … literature using a meta-analytical methods. Our results suggest that relevant discounting literature overestimates the discount … effect of time horizon presented within the discounting task. Our results support the external validity of experiments …
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This paper estimates time preference parameters using commonly-applied methodologies, with the aim of investigating the link between these measures and actual economic behaviour. An experiment was conducted in the city of Thies, in Senegal, using the unique reference numbers of banknotes as a...
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