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Risk and time preferences: saver types [PDF]

In an extended variant of the life-cycle hypothesis, saving behaviour is shown to depend crucially on the interaction between two preference parameters : γ, which represents risk attitudes (aversion, prudence...), and δ, the rate of time depreciation ...
André Masson, Luc Arrondel
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Financial behavior, confidence, risk preferences and financial literacy of university students

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2018
This study investigates determinants of financial behavior (FB) of university students at a university in South Africa. It examines whether financial behavior, confidence, time preferences, risk preferences and financial literacy perceptions of ...
Calvin Mudzingiri, John W. Muteba Mwamba, Jacobus Nicolaas Keyser   +2 more
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Time inconsistent preferences and Social Security [PDF]

In this paper we examine the role of social security in an economy populated by overlapping generations of individuals with time-inconsistent preferences who face mortality risk, individual income risk, and borrowing constraints.
Ayse Imrohoroglu, Douglas H. Joines, Selahattin Imrohoroglu   +2 more
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Efficiency and Equilibrium when Preferences are Time-Inconsistent [PDF]

We consider an exchange economy with time-inconsistent consumers whose preferences are additively separable. When these consumers trade in a sequence of markets, their time-inconsistency may introduce a non-convexity that gives them an incentive to trade
Erzo G J Luttmer, Thomas Mariotti
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Exploring the association of time-inconsistent preferences with smoking behavior: A cross-sectional survey study from Sichuan, China

Tobacco Induced Diseases
Introduction The high prevalence of tobacco use in China has led to a heavy social burden. There have been many studies on smoking behavior in China, but few have explored it from the perspective of behavioral economics.
Yanru Li, Shiyao Ling, Yuelin Zhou, Yong Li, Jingman He, Lian Yang   +5 more
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Time preferences: do they matter in bargaining? [PDF]

Experimental studies of bargaining generally impose time preferences' on subjects, in the sense that in case of disagreement, the experimenter reduces the size of the surplus bargained over by imposing exogenously some monetary cost.
Paola Manzini
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Local Preferences and Place of Death in Regions within England 2010 [PDF]

, 2011
This report shows public preferences for place of death in the nine English Government Office Regions (GORs), obtained from a population-based telephone survey in 2010.
Barbara Gomes, Irene J. Higginson, Natalia Calanzani   +2 more
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Heterogeneous risk and time preferences

, 2016
Assessing individuals’ time and risk preferences is crucial in domains such as health-related decisions (e.g., dieting, addictions), environmentally-friendly practices, and saving opportunities. We propose a new method to jointly elicit and estimate risk
Alina Ferecatu, Ayse Öncüler
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sensitive Estimation of Flavor Preferences in STFP Using Cumulative Time Profiles

Bio-Protocol, 2017
Social transmission of food preference (STFP) is observed among rodents between a demonstrator and a naïve hungry observer. During social interaction, hungry observer receives information about safety of the food consumed by the demonstrator.
Aditya Singh, J. Balaji
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Monotone Stochastic Choice Models: The Case of Risk and Time Preferences

Journal of Political Economy, 2015
Suppose that, when evaluating two alternatives x and y by means of a parametric utility function, low values of the parameter indicate a preference for x and high values indicate a preference for y.
Jose Apesteguia, Miguel A. Ballester
semanticscholar   +1 more source