La inconsistencia de las elecciones intertemporales: un análisis desde la neuroeconomía

Authors

  • Federico Contiggiani UNS - IIEES - CONICET

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52292/j.estudecon.2012.767

Keywords:

neuroeconomics, behavioral economics, intertemporal decision making

Abstract

The traditional models of decision making in economics do not consider the inner mechanisms that participates in the process of the choice formation. There are some economic problems where the emotions play a fundamental role. Particularly, since the development of neuroeconomics, it has been discovered that the inconsistences in individual intertemporal choices arise as the result of the interaction of two evaluative systems, one affective and another deliberative. In this article, there are presented some models that analyze this kind of representation from the optics of cognitive psychology, neurobiology and economic science. Finally, there are presented some developments of neuroeconomics models that look for distinguish which economic models of individual behavior are supported by the cognitive principles of human behavior. 

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2012-08-06

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Contiggiani, F. (2012). La inconsistencia de las elecciones intertemporales: un análisis desde la neuroeconomía. Estudios económicos, 29(58), 13–38. https://doi.org/10.52292/j.estudecon.2012.767

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