Waiting to Choose: The Role of Deliberation in Intertemporal Choice
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- Alex Imas & Michael A. Kuhn & Vera Mironova, 2022. "Waiting to Choose: The Role of Deliberation in Intertemporal Choice," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 14(3), pages 414-440, August.
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time preferences; waiting periods; noisy cognition; heuristics; deliberation; field experiments;All these keywords.
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- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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