How politicians make decisions: A political choice experiment

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-196

  Fatas, Enrique ^a   Neugebauer, Tibor ^b   Tamborero, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Expected utility theory; Prospect theory; Subject pool effect; Subject surrogacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949006456     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-007-0264-4     Document Type: Article

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