Time is an amazingly variable amount of money: Endowment and ownership effects in the subjective value of working time

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-405

  Hoorens, Vera ^a   Remmers, Nicole ^b   Van de Riet, Kamieke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias; Ownership; Self; Superiority; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033176981     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(99)00014-8     Document Type: Article

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