𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Zero time preference with discounting

✍ Scribed by P. Buckholtz; J. Hartwick


Book ID
116100748
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
370 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0165-1765

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.


πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES


Discounting life-years: whither time pre
✍ Dorte Gyrd-Hansen; Jes SΓΈgaard πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1998 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 62 KB

If elicited time preferences are to be incorporated into economic evaluations, not only social but also individual preferences may be included. The view of this paper is that social intertemporal preferences should govern social intertemporal choices when prioritising between the saving of lives now

Negative and zero time preference for he
✍ Marjon M. Van Der Pol; John A. Cairns πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 2000 πŸ› John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English βš– 50 KB

The assumption of positive time preference is seldom challenged in analyses of intertemporal choices, despite considerable evidence of zero and negative discount rates. In this study, the majority of respondents have positive discount rates, but a substantial number have negative or zero discount ra