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Imagine you’re given a choice between receiving P1,000 today and P1,500 after two months. What would you choose? Most people would opt for the immediate P1,000. This common preference for immediate ...

A general setup is considered where quasi-hyperbolic discounting agents differ in assuming heterogeneous bias for the present as well as heterogeneous discounting parameters, consumptions being, ...

Hyperbolic discounting may sound mathematically intimidating but let me try to explain it to a seven year old. Imagine gathering seven year olds and asking them, “Would you like to receive…” Option A: ...

What is Hyperbolic Discounting, and how is it related to investing? Before I answer this, let me first give you a thought experiment. Below are three scenarios that I want you to consider. Carefully ...

Hyperbolic discounting behaviour can arise in experiments when expected utility maximising subjects who discount exponentially doubt the credibility of future pay-offs. In this paper the authors show ...

Economists have long argued that an effective way of reducing carbon emissions is by increasing taxes on energy consumption. This year’s Nobel laureate, Bill Nordhaus, advocated a global carbon tax ...

You may have never heard the term before, but you’re definitely familiar with hyperbolic discounting in your everyday life; we all do it. Hyperbolic discounting is basically the tendency most people ...

Self-control is hard. People tend to go for "smaller-sooner" benefits over "larger-later" rewards. Economists call this "hyperbolic discounting." You call it "I'll go to the gym next Tuesday." Nothing ...

You may have never heard the term before, but you’re definitely familiar with hyperbolic discounting in your everyday life; we all do it. Hyperbolic discounting is basically the tendency most people ...