• DOI:10.2307/2118482
Corpus ID: 15959172

Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation

@article{Loewenstein1992AnomaliesII,
  title={Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation},
  author={G. Loewenstein and D. Prelec},
  journal={Quarterly Journal of Economics},
  year={1992},
  volume={107},
  pages={573-597}
}

G. Loewenstein, D. Prelec

Published 1992

Economics

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Research on decision making under uncertainly has been strongly influenced by the documentation of numerous expected utility (EU) anomalies—behaviors that violate the expected utility axioms. The relative lack of progress on the closely related topic of intertemporal choice is partly due to the absence of an analogous set of discounted utility (DU) anomalies. We enumerate a set of DU anomalies analogous to the EU anomalies and propose a model that accounts for the anomalies, as well as other… CONTINUE READING

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