Non-parametric test of time consistency: Present bias and future bias

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 456-478

  Takeuchi, Kan ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decreasing impatience; Future bias; Increasing impatience; Intertemporal choice; Present bias; Reverse time inconsistency; Time preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952006860     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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