Satiation in discounted utility

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 170-181

  Baucells, Manel ^a   Sarin, Rakesh K ^b  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Local substitution; Satiation; Time preference

Indexed keywords

LOCAL SUBSTITUTION; SATIATION; TIME PREFERENCE;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC UTILITIES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 34247535101     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0322     Document Type: Article

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