Title
Valuing the Future and Discounting in Random Environments: A Review
Abstract
We address the process of discounting in random environments, which allows valuation of the future in economic terms. We review several approaches to the problem regarding different well-established stochastic market dynamics in the continuous-time context and include the Feynman-Kac approach. We also review the relation between bond-pricing theory and discounting and introduce both the market price of risk and the risk neutral measure from an intuitive point of view devoid of excessive formalism. We provide the discount for each economic model and discuss their key results. We finally present a summary of our previous empirical studies for several countries on the long-run discount problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/e24040496
ENTROPY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
discounting, bond pricing, real interest rates, econophysics
Journal
24
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1099-4300
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaume Masoliver100.34
Miquel Montero210.77
Josep Perelló300.34
J Doyne Farmer400.68
John Geanakoplos500.34