Large Costs, Small Benefits: Explaining Trade Dispute Outcomes

Political Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 241-270

  Elms, Deborah Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Framing; Japan; Negotiations; Prospect theory; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842842997     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00370.x     Document Type: Article

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