Why Chinese discount future financial and environmental gains but not losses more than Americans
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Keywords
Temporal discounting; Cross-cultural differences; Uncertainty; Environmental decisions; China; D81; D91;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
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