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Discounting the Future?

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: this post is written with Béatrice Cherrier (Research Director, CNRS-ENSAE / CREST) The first lessons in insurance and financial mathematics address discounting and the value of time, borrowing Christian Gollier’s expression, because insurers must account for this temporal aspect in medium-term annuity calculations. But do these discounting calculations, used for centuries to reflect individual decisions (of policyholders, investors, companies), still make sense when used to guide public pol...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/12u55

Author: Arthur Charpentier

Language: English

Topic: Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Subfield: General Decision Sciences

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6973869852

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