Search Results - subject:"Rate of Time Preference"

The Representative Household Assumption Requires sustainable Heterogeneity in Dynamic Models

Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The assumption of the representative household defined as the average of all households is impossible in dynamic models if households are heterogeneous in their time preference rates because, as is well known, the most patient household eventually prevails. Because time preference rates are...

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Asymmetries in utility functions and marriage decisions : a Ramsey-Koopmans approach

Edwards, Gonzalo - In: Revista de análisis económico 33 (2018) 2, pp. 91-99

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Intergenerational Justice: How Reasonable Man Discounts Climate Damage

Davidson, Marc D. - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 1, pp. 106-122

pollution across national borders. It is argued that this implies, for example, that a zero social rate of time preference …

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Revisiting social discount rates for public investment

Song, Joonhyuk - In: Han gug gae bal yeon gu 39 (2017) 2, pp. 75-98

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Rates of time preferences for saving lives in the hazardous waste site context

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita - 2009

are varied to the respondents. Assuming constant exponential discounting, the responses to these questions imply a rate of … time preference for saving lives of 12%. There is little evidence that this rate is systematically associated with …

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Rates of Time Preferences for Saving Lives in the Hazardous Waste Site Context

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

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Essays in Open Economy Macroeconomics

Gonzalez Hernandez, Ramon Antonio - 2008

the transient paths) after this historical event. This result brings additional support to the endogenous rate of time … preference being a crucial element in growth models.The last essay, “Monetary Policy under Fear of Floating: Modeling the …

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Gradual versus structural technological change in the transition to a low-emission energy industry: How time-to-build and differing social and individual discount rates influence environmental and technology policies

Heinzel, Christoph; Winkler, Ralph - 2006

We develop a general equilibrium model to study the transition from an established polluting to a new clean energy technology. Therefore, we consider two distinctive features: (i) the creation of new productive capital exhibits a timeto-build property, and (ii) the social and individual rates of...

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Heinzel, Christoph; Winkler, Ralph - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2006

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The choice of the social discount rate and the opportunity cost of public funds

Moore, Mark A.; Boardman, Anthony E.; Vining, Aidan R. - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 4 (2013) 3, pp. 401-409

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