<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>A utility function for time streams having interperiod dependencies</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:abstract>Frequently, a decision maker's preferences for consequences in a given period will depend on the particular outcome in the previous and/or following period. This paper gives a simple functional form which enables such preferences to be explicitly included in a utility function for time streams.</mods:abstract><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">1979</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Wiley</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>