Monetary incentives, what are they good for?

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 265-276

  Read, Daniel ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental methods; Incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444443608     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780500086180     Document Type: Article

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