What have you done for me lately? Release of information and strategic manipulation of memories

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 518, 2007, Pages 307-326

  Sarafidis, Yianis ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEMORY; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 34147143564     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02019.x     Document Type: Article

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