The 'spite' dilemma: Spite or no spite, is there a dilemma?

Economics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 405-412

  Brunton, Douglas ^a   Hasan, Rabia ^a   Mestelman, Stuart ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C91; Experiments; H41; Public goods; Spite dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035609135     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00390-1     Document Type: Article

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