Time-inconsistent Preferences and Consumer Self-Control

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• Publication year

  1991

• Venue

  Journal of Consumer Research

• Publication date

  1991-03-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1086/208573
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