The desire for impact

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-300

  Dur, Robert ^a,b   Glazer, Amihai ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Hold up problem; Impact motive; Incomplete contracts; Monopsony like behavior; Wage differentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849085196     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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