Is Time-Discounting Hyperbolic or Subadditive?

Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 5 - 32
Published: Jul 1, 2001
Abstract
Subadditive time discounting means that discounting over a delay is greater when the delay is divided into subintervals than when it is left undivided. This may produce the most important result usually attributed to hyperbolic discounting: declining impatience, or the inverse relationship between the discount rate and the magnitude of the delay. Three choice experiments were conducted to test for subadditive discounting, and to determine...
Paper Details
Title
Is Time-Discounting Hyperbolic or Subadditive?
Published Date
Jul 1, 2001
Volume
23
Issue
1
Pages
5 - 32
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