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Some empirical evidence on dynamic inconsistency
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thaler, R.
- Venue
- Economics Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1981-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 201-207
- ISSN
- 0165-1765 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2004717177
- Cited by
- 2,243
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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