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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 17-20
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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 17-20
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 17-19
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: Österreichische militärische Zeitschrift: ÖMZ, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 28-35
ISSN: 0048-1440
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In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 49, Heft Supplement_1, S. 295-296
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: Current History, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 202-203
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 787-809
ISSN: 1537-5277
Abstract
Inconsistency in consumer time preferences has been well established and used to explain seemingly short-sighted behaviors (e.g., failures of self-control). However, prior research has conflated time-inconsistent preferences (discount rates that vary over time) with present bias (greater discounting when outcomes are delayed specifically from the present, as opposed to from a future time). This research shows that time-inconsistent preferences are reliably observed only when choices are substantially delayed (e.g., months into the future), which cannot be explained by present bias. This seeming puzzle is explained by a novel cross-period discounting framework, which predicts that consumers are more impatient when choosing between options occurring in different subjective financial periods. As a result, they display inconsistent time preferences and are less willing to wait for an equally delayed outcome specifically when a common delay to both options moves the larger-later option into a subsequent financial period. Six studies and multiple supplementary studies demonstrate that sensitivity to subjective financial periods accounts for time-inconsistent consumer preferences better than current models of time discounting based on present bias.
In: IAB Discussion Paper: Beiträge zum wissenschaftlichen Dialog aus dem Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Band 10/2006
"Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search frictions and show that there is a trade-off between the qualifying and the base period on the one hand and the amount and duration of the unemployment benefits on the other. A country that combines a high level of unemployment benefits with a long benefit duration can neutralize the effect on the equilibrium rate of unemployment with a long qualifying and/or a short base period." (author's abstract)
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 129
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization 9,1
In: Colonial period 1
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In: Journal of economics, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 157-169
ISSN: 1617-7134
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