Long Term Policy Goals Under Electoral Competition Given Varied Temporal Discount Rates Among Voters

Many important issues facing the world involve temporal tradeoffs, requiring costly investment in the short term for payoffs that accrue much later. However, politicians facing frequent elections are held accountable to voter preferences, where voters tend to be myopic, making investment difficult....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicholas, Sara
Other Authors: Magazinnik, Asya
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144947