Essays about: "Discounting"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 40 essays containing the word Discounting.
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16. Mobile Self-scanning -Increasing Self-Control?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : In the grocery store there are constantly occasions when choices are to be made. Sometimes it is hard to make the best choices. Therefore, consumers sometimes need tools to facilitate choosing the best groceries for their welfare. A mobile self-scanner can be such a tool. READ MORE
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17. (agri)Environmental contracts, dynamic inconsistencies and moral hazard
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : From the beginning of the world, the agricultural sector has always played an essential role into our society, and contracts have massively been used by policy-makers for the implementation of (agri)environmental policies, especially when such policies concern the use and development of privately owned land, and information asymmetries between policy-makers and individuals exist. Even though the majority of (agri)environmental contracts are designed assuming individual’s constant time-preferences, recent evidence from many behavioural studies on individual’s intertemporal choices advocate declining time-preferences due to behavioural biases, which can be explained by hyperbolic discounting. READ MORE
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18. Risk Attitudes and the Equity Premium Puzzle: empirical tests in a cross-country setting
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This study utilises panel data, Equity Home Bias measurements and a two-stage estimation process incorporating one version of the international CAPM to extract comparable input data and test country-scores for risk preferences, risk aversion and time discounting as well as country scores on broader cultural dimensions, on country-estimates of the Equity Risk Premia. The risk attitude scores, which just recently have been made available, are such that they may proxy for irrational behaviours which have been theorized to explain the Equity Premium Puzzle, and enable a rigorous way to empirically test such an effect. READ MORE
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19. Annuity Divisor - Comparison Between Different Computational Methods
University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistikAbstract : This thesis is focused on a vital component of the Swedish national pension system called Annuity Divisor which determines the annual pension amount. It is based on the life expectancy of the whole population and it also includes a set discount rate. READ MORE
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20. Intertemporal land allocation decision under uncertainty and hyperbolic discounting
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Land is of prime importance for all the activities of human beings, and how to efficiently use the limited land resource has been a crucial issue ever since the earliest times of human society. Uncertainty and irreversibility are important issues related to land use change, and it has been shown by Mäler and Fisher (2005, p590-p592) that the replacement of stochastic variable by its expected value could result in inappropriate land use decisions. READ MORE
