Menta accounting matters

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-206

  Thaler, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Budgeting; Choice bracketing; Fungibility; Mental accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644448359     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(199909)12:3<183::AID-BDM318>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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