Private transfers with incomplete information: A contribution to the "altruism-exchange motivation for transfers" debate

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 715-736

  Feinerman, Eli ^a   Seiler, Edward J ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Bates White LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Exchange; Intergenerational transfers; Mechanism design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036447951     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001480100114     Document Type: Article

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