Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 109-126

  Babcock, Linda ^a   Loewenstein, George ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001156293     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.11.1.109     Document Type: Article

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