Deception through telling the truth?! Experimental evidence from individuals and teams

Economic Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 534, 2009, Pages 47-60

  Sutter, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

EID: 57749100077     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02205.x     Document Type: Article

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