Tournaments, fairness, and risk

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 561-573

  Wu, Steven ^a   Roe, Brian ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contract regulation; Experiments; Fairness; Social preferences; Tournaments

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 33746242138     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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