@techreport{NBERw10597, title = "Exotic Preferences for Macroeconomists", author = "David Backus and Bryan Routledge and Stanley Zin", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "10597", year = "2004", month = "June", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w10597", abstract = {We provide a user's guide to exotic' preferences: nonlinear time aggregators, departures from expected utility, preferences over time with known and unknown probabilities, risk-sensitive and robust control, hyperbolic' discounting, and preferences over sets ( temptations'). We apply each to a number of classic problems in macroeconomics and finance, including consumption and saving, portfolio choice, asset pricing, and Pareto optimal allocations.}, }