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Dynamically Inconsistent Preferences and Money Demand

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This paper focuses on two main issues. First, we find that, on average, households’ discount rates decline. This implies dynamically inconsistent preferences. Second, we calculate an indicator of the degree of dynamic inconsistency that may help us to understand how households overcome their self-control problems. We use a micro dataset containing households’ reports on the compensation for receiving hypothetical rewards with delays. We find that individuals with more severely dynamicly inconsistent preferences on average hold a statistically significantly lower share of their total wealth in checking accounts. A possible interpretation is that subjects use precommitment strategies to limit their temptation to consume immediately.

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Paper provided by Tor Vergata University, CEIS in its series CEIS Research Paper with number 129.

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Length: 18 pages
Date of creation: 09 Sep 2008
Date of revision: 09 Sep 2008
Handle: RePEc:rtv:ceisrp:129

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Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Intertemporal choice; Hyperbolic Discounting; Dynamic Inconsistency; Precommitment;

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