A unified Europe? How euro-attitudes relate to psychological differences between countries

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 681-699

  Pepermans, Roland ^a   Verleye, Gino ^a  

^a Organisational Economic Psychol (W   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consumer opinion and attitude testing; Cultural differences; D63; D84; E52; European Union; F33; Multidimensional scaling; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007088695     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(98)00032-4     Document Type: Article

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