The beauty of the contest: A novel approach to experimental beauty contests

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 3, Issue 52, 2008, Pages

  Lanteri, Alessandro ^a   Novarese, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

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