An Economic Model of Mortality Salience in Personal Financial Decision Making: Applications to Annuities, Life Insurance, Charitable Gifts, Estate Planning, Conspicuous Consumption, and Healthcare

The study of personal mortality salience and the denial of death have a long history in psychology leading to the modern field of Terror Management Theory. However, a simple consumer utility function predicts many of the outcomes identified in experimental research in this field. Further, this econo...

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Main Author:	James, Russell N.
Format:	Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	2018
Subjects:	mortality salience terror management theory annuities life insurance charitable gifts healthcare estate planning
Online Access:	https://demo7.dspace.org/handle/123456789/260
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