Decreasing Impatience

Christopher P. Chambers; Federico Echenique; Alan D. Miller

doi:10.1257/mic.20210361

Decreasing Impatience

Christopher P. Chambers, Federico Echenique, Alan D. Miller

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We characterize decreasing impatience, a common behavioral phenomenon in intertemporal choice. Discount factors that display decreasing impatience are characterized through a convexity axiom for investments at fixed interest rates. Then we show that they are equivalent to a geometric average of generalized quasi-hyperbolic discount rates. Finally, they emerge through parimutuel preference aggregation of exponential discount factors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	527-551
Number of pages	25
Journal	American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20210361
State	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes

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General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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