Post mortem reputation, compensatory gifts and equal bequests

Economics Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-171

  Lundholm, Michael ^a   Ohlsson, Henry ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Altruism; Bequests; D10; D64; Gifts; Private information; Social norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034417757     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00202-5     Document Type: Article

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