99: Are retailers best responding to rational consumers? Experimental evidence

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 459-475

  Ruffle, Bradley J ^a   Shtudiner, Ze'ev ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 33749679970     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1282     Document Type: Article

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