Time Discounting for Primary and Monetary Rewards
Economics Letters, Vol. 106, No. 2, pp. 125-127, 2009
9 Pages Posted: 31 Oct 2011
Date Written: 2010
Abstract
This paper reports a positive and statistically significant relation between short-term discount rates elicited with a monetary and a primary reward (chocolate). This finding suggests that high short-term discount rates are related to an underling individual trait.
Keywords: time preferences, hyperbolic discounting, intertemporal choice
JEL Classification: C91, D90, D01
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