Empirical determinants of intertemporal choice

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 473-486

  Brown, Jeffrey R ^a,c   Ivković, Zoran ^b   Weisbenner, Scott ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Discount rate; Intertemporal choice; Pensions; Political risk; Social security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929653734     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2015.04.004     Document Type: Article

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