Within-team competition in the minimum effort coordination game

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-266

  Fatas, Enrique ^a   Neugebauer, Tibor ^b   Perote, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

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COMPETITION (ECONOMICS);

EID: 33744910886     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2006.00312.x     Document Type: Article

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