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Observed and Normative Discount Functions in Addiction and other Diseases
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017 The aim of this paper is to find a suitable discount function able to describe the progression of a certain addiction or disease under treatment as a discounting process.
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +2 more
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Aggregating time preferences with decreasing impatience
, 2016 It is well-known that for a group of time-consistent decision makers their collective time preferences may become time-inconsistent. Jackson and Yariv (2014) demonstrated that the result of aggregation of exponential discount functions always exhibits present bias.
Anchugina, Nina +2 more
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Introducing upfront losses as well as gains decreases impatience in intertemporal choices with rewards [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2014 AbstractPeople tend to prefer smaller and sooner (SS) rewards over larger and later (LL) ones even when the latter are much larger. Previous research have identified several ways to enhance people’s patience. Adding to this literature, the current paper demonstrates that introduction of upfront losses as well as gains to both SS and LL rewards can ...
Cheng-Ming Jiang +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
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Survey of time preference, delay discounting models [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 The paper surveys over twenty models of delay discounting (also known as temporal discounting, time preference, time discounting), that psychologists and economists have put forward to explain the way people actually trade off time and money.
John R. Doyle
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Collective Investment Decision Making with Heterogeneous Time Preferences [PDF]
We examine the investment decision problem of a group whose members have heterogeneous time preferences. In particular, they have different discount factors for utility, possibly not exponential. We characterize the properties of efficient allocations of
Christian Gollier, Richard Zeckhauser
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Discount Functions for Fitting Individual Data [PDF]
, 2007 The commonly used hyperbolic and quasi-hyperbolic discount functions imply decreasing impatience, which is the prevailing empirical phenomenon in intertemporal choice, in particular for aggregate behavior. At the individual level there is much variation,
Bleichrodt, H. (Han) +2 more
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A consensus model in legislative decision‐making: The council of the European Union
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.Abstract The culture of consensus influences legislative decision‐making within the Council of the European Union, often leading to broad coalitions in which even the preferences of isolated member states are considered. Nevertheless, despite its significance, this culture has been insufficiently studied through formal models predicting EU legislative ...
Arash Pourebrahimi
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Dravet syndrome (DS) is the prototypic developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, characterized by drug‐resistant seizures, developmental slowing, and many other morbidities. Detailed characterization of behavioral phenotypes and social–emotional skill development are limited.
Ingrid E. Scheffer +26 more
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