Subjective Time Preference and Willingness to Pay for an Energy-Saving Durable Good

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 133-141

  Antonides, Gerrit ^a   Wunderink, Sophia R ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Energy saving; Hyperbolic discounting; Time preference; Value function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035647220     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//0044-3514.32.3.133     Document Type: Article

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