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Hyperbolic discounting
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Given two similar rewards, humans show a preference for one that arrives sooner rather than later. Humans are said to ''discount'' the value of the later reward, by a factor that increases with the length of the delay. In [[behavioral economics]], '''hyperbolic discounting''' is a particular mathematical model thought to approximate this discounting process; that is, it models how humans actually make such valuations. Hyperbolic(contracted; show full)
* Ainslie, G. (2001) ''Breakdown of Will'' Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521596947
* Musau, A. (2009): Modeling Alternatives to Exponential Discounting, MPRA Paper 16416, University Library of Munich, Germany.
* Rachlin, H. (2000). ''The Science of Self-Control'' Cambridge;London: Harvard University Press

[[Category:Cognitive biases]]
[[Category:Behavioral finance]]

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