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Inter-temporal discounting and uniform impatience

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MArio Páscoa () (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Myrian Petrassi () (Central Bank of Brasil and Department of Economics, PUC-Rio)
Juan Pablo Torres Martinez () (Department of Economics, PUC-Rio)

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The uniform impatience hypothesis, a joint requirement on endowments and preferences, was imposed in the literature to prove equilibrium existence in infinite horizon sequential economies. In this note, we characterize this assumption in terms of asymptotic properties on inter-temporal discount factors.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil) in its series Textos para discussão with number 555.

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Keywords: Uniform impatience; inter-temporal discounting. JEL Codes: D50; D52.;

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  1. Laibson, David, 1998. "Life-cycle consumption and hyperbolic discount functions," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 42(3-5), pages 861-871, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Magill, M. & Quinzii, M., 1992. "Infinite Horizon Incomplete Markets," DELTA Working Papers 92-26, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
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