Budget processes: Theory and experimental evidence

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 279-295

  Ehrhart, Karl Martin ^a   Gardner, Roy ^b,c,d   von Hagen, Jürgen ^b,c,e   Keser, Claudia ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d Kyiv School of Economics Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^e CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^f IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g CIRANO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Budget processes; Experimental economics; Voting equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248593494     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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