The non-monetary nature of gifts

European Economic Review

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1793-1810

  Prendergast, Canice ^a   Stole, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gifts; Non monetary exchange; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

EID: 0035172968     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(00)00102-1     Document Type: Article

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