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Intertemporal Consumer Choice

Intertemporal Consumer Choice is a theoretical construct in microeconomic analysis that specifies how consumers allocate consumption and savings across different time periods to maximize lifetime utility, distinguished from static choice models by its explicit incorporation of time preferences, future expectations, and discounting behavior.

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97.1K

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1.3K

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620

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Publications

701

Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model

Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1991 · 6.4K 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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Toward a positive theory of consumer choice

Richard H. Thaler · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 1980 · 5.6K citations

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Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case

Robert C. Merton · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 1969 · 5.3K citations

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Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer

Menahem E. Yaari · The Review of Economic Studies · 1965 · 3.3K citations

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Authors

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  1. GZ
    Gal Zauberman

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    9 publications · 1.3K citations

    9

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  2. TJ
    Tullio Jappelli

    University of Naples Federico II, Italy

    8 publications · 395 citations

    8

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  3. DC
    Dimitris Christelis

    University of Naples Federico II, Italy

    7 publications · 368 citations

    7

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  4. DL
    David Laibson

    Harvard University, United States

    7 publications · 2.6K citations

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  5. DG
    Dimitris Georgarakos

    European Central Bank, Germany

    7 publications · 368 citations

    7

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Institutions

620

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    29 h-index

    66 publications

    11.7K citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    22 h-index

    30 publications

    7.1K citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    20 h-index

    30 publications

    11.1K citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    16 h-index

    27 publications

    4.1K citations

  5. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    15 h-index

    44 publications

    3.9K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    13 h-index

    16 publications

    9.4K citations

  7. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    1.6K citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    8K citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 53 publications · 1.9K citations

    25

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  2. Journal of Consumer Research

    JCR · 26 publications · 5.3K citations

    23

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  3. Journal of Marketing Research

    21 publications · 2.3K citations

    18

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  4. Econometrica

    20 publications · 2.7K citations

    17

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  5. Journal of Political Economy

    JPE · 16 publications · 10.6K citations

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