Do addicts behave rationally?

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 643-661

  Fehr, Ernst ^a   Zych, Peter K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 0032332580     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00127     Document Type: Article

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