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From Neuroeconomics to Genetics: The Intertemporal Choices Case as an Example

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  • Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde

    (IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod - DEC - Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CdF (institution) - Collège de France - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Département de Philosophie - ENS Paris - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, LEM - Laboratoire d'Économie Moderne - UP2 - Université Panthéon-Assas)

  • Itzhak Gingi Aharon

    (Interdisciplinary Centre - IDC - Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)

Abstract

We offer an integrative views of the neurobiological and genetic studies of intertemporal choice behavior in connnection with its several modelling (exponential, hyperbolic and quasi-hyperbolic).

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  • Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde & Itzhak Gingi Aharon, 2011. "From Neuroeconomics to Genetics: The Intertemporal Choices Case as an Example," Post-Print ijn_00713466, HAL.
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