Invest now, drink later, spend never: On the mental accounting of delayed consumption

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 694-712

  Shafir, Eldar ^a   Thaler, Richard H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertemporal choice; Mental accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748494454     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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