Self-interest, sympathy and the origin of endowments

Economics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-72

  Cherry, Todd L ^a   Shogren, Jason F ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Bargaining; C7; C9; D0; Experiments; Mental accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949095367     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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