The chilling effect of optimism: The case of final-offer arbitration

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-30

  Dickinson, David L ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispute conflict resolution; Expectations; Experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144447427     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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