Is Time-Discounting Hyperbolic or Subadditive?

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 5-32

  Read, Daniel ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Hyperbolic discounting; Intertemporal choice; Support theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035638928     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011198414683     Document Type: Article

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