Saving and Dissaving With Hyperbolic Discounting

Is the standard hyperbolic-discounting model capable of robust qualitative predictions for savings behavior? Despite results suggesting a negative answer, we provide a positive one. We give conditions under which all Markov equilibria display either saving at all wealth levels or dissaving at all we...

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Main Authors: Cao, Dan (Author), Werning, Ivan (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Econometric Society, 2020-08-28T14:20:30Z.
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