• Title of article

    Consumption and Risk with hyperbolic discounting

  • Author/Authors

    Liutang Gong، نويسنده , , William Smith، نويسنده , , Heng-fu Zou، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    153
  • To page
    160
  • Abstract
    Hyperbolic discounting is not observationally equivalent to exponential discounting. It is always possible to calibrate an exponential model so that it predicts the same level of consumption as a hyperbolic model. However, the two models have radically different comparative statics.
  • Keywords
    Consumption , Uncertainty , Hyperbolic discounting
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436278