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Discounting and Future Selves [PDF]
, 2002 Is discounting of future instantaneous utilities consistent with altruism towards future selves? More precisely, can temporal preferences, expressed as a sum of discounted instantaneous utilities, be derived from a representation in the form of a sum of ...
Sáez-Martí, María +1 more
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Expected exponential discounting in inter-temporal decision making
Journal of Mathematical PsychologyPeer ...
Tom H. Rosenström, Alasdair I. Houston
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International Endodontic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to aid clinicians in assessing case difficulty in endodontics. The objectives of this study were to develop and validate deep learning models for the detection of clinically negotiable MB2 canals in periapical images of maxillary first and second molars, and to compare the performance of AI ...
Seyed AmirHossein Ourang +8 more
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The Zero Discounting and Maximin Optimal Paths in a Simple Model of Global Warming [PDF]
Following Stollery (1998), we extend the Solow-- Dasgupta--Heal model to analyze the effects of global warming The rise of temperature is caused by the use of fossil resources so that the temperature level can be linked to the remaining stock of these ...
Antoine D'Autume +2 more
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Indexical utility: another rationalization of exponential discounting
Economics and PhilosophyAbstractThis paper is about time preferences, the phenomenon that the very same things are usually considered the less valuable the farther in the future they are obtained. The utilities of those things are discounted at a certain rate. The paper presents a novel normative argument for exponential discount rates, whatever their empirical adequacy.
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Beyond Exponentially Discounted Sum: Automatic Learning of Return Function
, 2019 In reinforcement learning, Return, which is the weighted accumulated future rewards, and Value, which is the expected return, serve as the objective that guides the learning of the policy. In classic RL, return is defined as the exponentially discounted sum of future rewards.
Wang, Yufei, Ye, Qiwei, Liu, Tie-Yan
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The Legacy of Policy Inaction in Climate‐Growth Models
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To better understand the structure and core mechanisms of a broad class of climate‐growth models, we study a simplified version of the dynamic integrated model of climate and the economy (DICE) through the lens of growth theory. We analytically show that this model features a continuum of saddle‐point stable steady states.
Thomas Steger, Timo Trimborn
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Akrasia – status of weak-willed actions in philosophy of law [PDF]
, 2012 Akrasia, or weak-will, is a term denoting a phenomenon when one acts freely and intentionally contrary to his or her better judgment. Discussion of akrasia originates in the Plato's Protagoras where he states that “No one who either knows or believes ...
Banaś, Paweł
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An Exponential Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Process as Discounting Factor
, 2018 We consider an economic agent (a household or an insurance company) modelling its surplus process by a deterministic process or by a Brownian motion with drift. The goal is to maximise the expected discounted spendings/dividend payments, given that the discounting factor is given by an exponential CIR process.
Eisenberg, Julia, Mishura, Yuliya
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Family Firms and Audit Effort: An Empirical Examination of Audit Hours per Auditor Rank
International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how audit effort varies across auditor ranks in response to family firm ownership. Prior research suggests that family firms typically face lower information asymmetry between shareholders and managers, leading to reduced audit fees and effort.
Jagadison K. Aier +3 more
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