Understanding the disparity between WTP and WTA: Endowment effect, substitutability, or imprecise preferences?

Economics Letters

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 189-194

  Morrison, Gwendolyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C9; D1; Endowment effect; Imprecise preferences; Reference points; Willingness to accept; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032219506     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00049-4     Document Type: Article

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