On the structure of choice under different external references

Economic Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 609-620

  Gaertner, Wulf ^a   Xu, Yongsheng ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choice functions; External references; Norms; Rationalizability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033423505     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990050343     Document Type: Article

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