An experimental study of decisions in dynamic optimization problems

Economic Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 389-419

  Noussair, Charles ^a   Matheny, Kenneth ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Macroeconomic Advisers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Dynamic optimization; Experiment; Investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034370120     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990050019     Document Type: Article

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