Essays about: "Hyperbolic Discounting"

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1. 1. Do investors walk their talk? Intention-behavior consistency of robo-advisor investors during stock market downturns

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Philipp Schwan; Elisabeth Julia Stephanie Six; [2022]
   Keywords : Investor behavior; Robo-advisor; Self-regulation; Intention-behavior gap;

   Abstract : Robo-advisors, as computer-automated investment platforms following passive investment strategies, have gained a lot of popularity, customers, and assets under management in recent years. They offer accessible and affordable wealth management solutions to a wide customer base through low fees and minimum investment amounts while providing well-diversified portfolios at individually assessed risk profiles. READ MORE

3. 2. Nudging people off of the couch. A nudge experiment on physical exercise in collaboration with SATS.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Anton Goffe; Staffan Sundsmyr; [2017-07-28]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to increase average weekly exercise frequency by up to 9.45%, by sending the study participants e-mails. Several of the leading causes of death globally are closely linked to physical inactivity. In fact, more people die from coronary heart disease than from starvation every year. READ MORE

4. 3. Mobile Self-scanning -Increasing Self-Control?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sofia Frögelius; [2015]
   Keywords : Mobile Self-scanning; Self-control; Commitment Devices; Hyperbolic Discounting; Inattentiveness; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : 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

5. 4. (agri)Environmental contracts, dynamic inconsistencies and moral hazard

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Georgios N. Diakoulakis; [2015]
   Keywords : contract design; behavior; decision-makin; discounting; economics; intertemporal choices;

   Abstract : 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

6. 5. Intertemporal land allocation decision under uncertainty and hyperbolic discounting

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Qi Wang; [2013]
   Keywords : Land Use Decision; Option Value; Quasi-option Value; Uncertainty; Standard Exponential Discounting; Hyperbolic Discounting; Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting;

   Abstract : 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