Ambiguity Aversion and Incompleteness of Contractual Form

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1207-1231

  Mukerji, Sujoy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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