Modelling time-inconsistent preferences

European Economic Review

Volumn 44, Issue 4-6, 2000, Pages 1116-1124

  Caillaud, Bernard ^a,b   Jullien, Bruno ^b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c Toulouse School of Economics   (France)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic discounting; Self restraint; Time inconsistent preferences

Indexed keywords

MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME ALLOCATION;

EID: 0034086623     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(99)00061-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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