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Jekyll and Hyde

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  • Marie-Edith Bissey
  • John Hey
  • Stefania Ottone

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Jekyll and Hyde were in fact two people inside the same person - an obviously dynamically-inconsistent person. In the book and in the movie, the dynamic inconsistency was resolved in a rather dramatic way. We investigate its resolution in the laboratory.

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  • Marie-Edith Bissey & John Hey & Stefania Ottone, 2010. "Jekyll and Hyde," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(6), pages 555-559.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:17:y:2010:i:6:p:555-559
    DOI: 10.1080/13504850802260853
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    • C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
    • D9 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics

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