Gender-Based Focal Points

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 292-314

  Holm, Håkan J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

convention; coordination; discrimination; focal point; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040176136     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/game.1998.0685     Document Type: Article

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