Gift exchange and reciprocity in competitive experimental markets

European Economic Review

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-34

  Fehr, Ernst ^a   Kirchsteiger, Georg ^b   Riedl, Arno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Competitive experimental markets; Gift exchange; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002730345     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(96)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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