Individual discounting and the purchase of durables with random lifetimes

DOI10.1016/0165-1765(94)00584-OzbMATH Open0900.90199MaRDI QIDQ673405FDOQ673405

Authors: Peter Kooreman 

Publication date: 28 February 1997

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

durables with random lifetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42)

Cites Work

• An Econometric Analysis of Residential Electric Appliance Holdings and Consumption

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• Subjective random discounting and intertemporal choice
• Household lifetime strategies under a self-contagious market
• Modeling the inconsistency in intertemporal choice: the generalized Weibull discount function and its extension
• Jerry Hausman

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