Irreversible investment under weighted discounting: effects of decreasing impatience
This paper employs an intra-personal game-theoretic framework to investigate how decreasing impatience influences irreversible investment behaviors in a continuous-time setting. We consider a capacity expansion problem under weighted discount functions, a class of nonexponential functions that exhibit decreasing impatience, including the hyperbolic discount function as a special case. By deriving the Bellman system that characterizes the equilibrium, we establish the framework for analyzing investment behaviors of agents subject to decreasing impatience. From an economic perspective, we demonstrates that decreasing impatience prompts early investment. From a technical standpoint, we warn that decreasing impatience can lead to the failure of the smooth pasting principle.
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