Intertemporal Tradeoffs for Gains and Losses: An Experimental Measurement of Discounted Utility

Economic Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 545, 2010, Pages 845-866

  Abdellaoui, Mohammed ^a   Attema, Arthur E ^b   Bleichrodt, Han ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOUNT RATE; ECONOMIC THEORY; MODELING; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 77953898146     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02308.x     Document Type: Article

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