Individual decision-making experiments with risk and intertemporal choice

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-72

  Anderson, Lisa R ^a   Stafford, Sarah L ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Intertemporal choice; Intertemporal decision making; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549096687     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-008-9059-4     Document Type: Article

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