Social security and self control preferences

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 757-778

  Kumru, Çaǧri S ^a,b   Thanopoulos, Athanasios C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Quasi hyperbolic discounting; Self control preferences; Unfunded social security

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949137800     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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