Bargaining outside the lab - A newspaper experiment of a three-person ultimatum game

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 518, 2007, Pages 449-469

  Güth, Werner ^a   Schmidt, Carsten ^b   Sutter, Matthias ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; INTERNET;

EID: 34147115220     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02025.x     Document Type: Article

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