Hyperbolic discounting and resource collapse

This paper shows that the use of hyperbolic discounting in environmental regulation can have unfortunate consequences. In a three-period model we demonstrate that a planner who 'naively' employs hyperbolic discounting and fails to anticipate problems of dynamic inconsistency, can oversee a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hepburn, C
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2003