Discount rates play a pivotal role in various fields, capturing the trade-off between present
and future, influencing predictions of unhealthy behaviors. Despite substantial variations in …

The omnipresence of smartphones among adolescents and adults gives rise to the
questions about excessive use and personality factors which are associated with heavier …

Purpose This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis on “intertemporal choice”
behavior of individuals from journals in the Scopus database between 1957 and 2023. The …

While embracing omnichannel operations, firms are rolling out ship-from-store (SFS). This
paper considers a newsvendor-like retailer operating both online and offline channels, and …

Standard economic models view risk taking and time discounting as two independent
dimensions of decision makers' behavior. However, mounting experimental evidence …

Intertemporal choices play a fundamental role in the lives of individuals, and the Discounted
Utility model is the essential framework for describing decision makers' attitudes in front of …

The framework of this paper is behavioral finance and, more specifically, the analysis of the
main anomalies (delay, magnitude and sign effects) present in the processes of …

This paper introduces the index τ= ln β/ln δ as a measure of time inconsistency and
vulnerability to self-control problems in the quasi-hyperbolic, beta-delta (β, δ) discounting …

Digital platforms have emerged as an important technology underpinning the new economy.
A key problem in such platforms concerns provisioning decisions for customer-service …

Understanding trade-offs across time is important in many areas of economics, but eliciting
and estimating the parameters of discounting processes is difficult. We implement a novel …