Mispredicting the endowment effect: Underestimation of owners' selling prices by buyer's agents

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-365

  Van Boven, Leaf ^a   Loewenstein, George ^b   Dunning, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Endowment effect; Experimental economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037678691     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(02)00150-6     Document Type: Article

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