Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #10, on May 26 [for Members and Generals]
The Kyoto Environment and Development seminar series (zoom) are open to anyone, and so feel free to join us.
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Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #10
- Date & Time: May 26, 2022, Thursday, 16:45-17:45 (JST)
- Language: English
- Venue: Zoom Web Seminar
- Speaker: Stein Holden (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Title: Is diminishing impatience in time-dated risky prospects explained by probability weighting? (Paper: https://www.nmbu.no/download/
Abstract:
We use a field experiment and a within-subject design based on multiple Choice Lists (CLs) that integrate time and risk. Diminishing impatience with extended time horizons is studied by varying time horizons from one week to two years. Time-dated risky prospects are constant within CLs and are always compared with time-dated certain amounts to identify time-dated Certainty Equivalents. Non-linear probability weighting is modeled with a 2-parameter Prelec function. First, we identify a strong diminishing impatience associated with longer time delay between prospects. Second, we test whether non-linear probability weighting can explain and reduce the observed diminishing impatience by replacing linear probability weighting with an estimated inverted S-shaped Prelec function. We find that this does not reduce the observed degree of diminishing impatience. We conclude that the observed diminishing impatience is neither explained by the combination of present bias and certainty bias nor by non-linear weighting of risk in future prospects.
Registration:
https://kyoto-u-edu.zoom.us/
Contact
Division of Natural Resource Economics
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
- Chair: Yohei Mitani (Division of Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University)
- Organizers: Junichi Ito, Yohei Mitani, Ken Miura
- miura.ken.3e [at] kyoto-u.ac.jp (replace [at] with @)
