The effect of risk on intertemporal choice

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 805-820

  Sun, Yan ^a   Li, Shu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

delay; immediacy effect; intertemporal choice; magnitude effect; risk; time

Indexed keywords

DELAY; IMMEDIACY EFFECT; INTERTEMPORAL CHOICES; MAGNITUDE EFFECT; TIME;

TIME DELAY;

EID: 77956459852     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: 14664461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13669871003606224     Document Type: Article

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