Experiments on intertemporal consumption typically show that people have difficulties in optimally solving such … long horizons. We present an experiment comparing decision making under certainty, risk, and ambiguity, over a shorter … lifecycle. Results show that behavior in the ambiguity treatment is markedly different than in the risk condition and it is …

We review some of the (theoretical) economic implications of David Schmeidler's models of decision under uncertainty …

The life-cycle theory of saving behavior (Modigliani, 1988) suggests that humans strive towards an equal intertemporal … distribution of wealth. However, behavioral life-cycle theory (Shefrin & Thaler, 1988) proposes that people use self control … heuristics to postpone wealth until later in life. According to this theory, people use a system of cognitive budgeting known as …