Time discounting: Declining impatience and interval effect

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-112

  Kinari, Yusuke ^a   Ohtake, Fumio ^b   Tsutsui, Yoshiro ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Declining impatience; Interval effect; Subadditivity; Time discount rate; Weber's Law

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449114706     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-009-9073-1     Document Type: Article

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