Consumption and Risk with hyperbolic discounting

Economics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-160

  Gong, Liutang ^a   Smith, William ^b   Zou, Heng fu ^c,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fogelman ^*  (United States)

^c World Bank Loan Project Office Chinese Academy of Forestry   (China)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Hyperbolic discounting; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250208797     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.12.023     Document Type: Article

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