Deal or no deal? decision making under risk in a large-payoff game show

American Economic Review

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-71

  Post, Thierry ^a   Van Den Assem, Martijn J ^a   Baltussen, Guido ^a   Thaler, Richard H ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 41849142005     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.1.38     Document Type: Article

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