Finance:Future-oriented agent

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In finance and economics, an agent is said to be future-oriented if he discounts the future lightly and so has a low discount rate, or equivalently a high discount factor.

Conversely, present-oriented agents discount the future heavily and so have a high discount rate, or equivalently a low discount factor.