Pre-commitment and flexibility in a time decision experiment

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-141

  Casari, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Commitment; Dynamic consistency; Experiments; Flexibility; Intertemporal choices; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349142566     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-009-9061-5     Document Type: Article

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