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Consumption-saving Decisions

Consumption-Saving Decisions is a theoretical framework in intertemporal economic modeling that specifies how individuals allocate disposable income between current consumption and future-oriented saving under conditions of time inconsistency, distinguishing it from static or myopic decision models by incorporating dynamic preference shifts over time.

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A Theory of the Allocation of Time

Gary S. Becker · The Economic Journal · 1965 · 10.2K citations

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Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in a continuous-time model

Robert C. Merton · Journal of Economic Theory · 1971 · 6.2K citations

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Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting

David Laibson · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1997 · 6.2K citations · Full text

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Myopia and Inconsistency in Dynamic Utility Maximization

Robert H. Strotz · The Review of Economic Studies · 1955 · 2.9K citations

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A Theory of the Consumption Function

Milton Friedman · Econometrica · 1960 · 2.3K citations

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  1. CD
    Christopher D. Carroll

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    16 publications · 3.3K citations

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  2. TJ
    Tullio Jappelli

    University of Naples Federico II, Italy

    13 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. LP
    Luigi Pistaferri

    Stanford University, United States

    11 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. CC
    Constantinos Challoumis - Κωνσταντίνος Χαλλουμής

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

    11 publications · 264 citations

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  5. YH
    Yong Hyun Shin

    Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea

    9 publications · 269 citations

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742

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    48 h-index

    122 publications

    21.9K citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    22 h-index

    46 publications

    11.2K citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    22 h-index

    29 publications

    9.2K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    21 h-index

    30 publications

    6.6K citations

  5. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    43 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    20 h-index

    51 publications

    16.5K citations

  7. Federal Reserve Board of Governors

    Washington D.C., United States

    20 h-index

    30 publications

    3K citations

  8. Federal Reserve

    Washington D.C., United States

    18 h-index

    31 publications

    3K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 133 publications · 4.8K citations

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  2. Econometrica

    31 publications · 9.6K citations

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  3. The Economic Journal

    33 publications · 14.1K citations

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  4. American Economic Review

    37 publications · 6.8K citations

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  5. The Review of Economic Studies

    29 publications · 7.5K citations

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