Generous actors, selfish actions: Markets with other-regarding preferences

International Review of Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-16

  Sobel, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Identification; Markets; Other regarding preferences; Rationality; Self interest; Welfare theorems

Indexed keywords

EID: 61549108618     PISSN: 18651704     EISSN: 18634613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12232-009-0061-1     Document Type: Article

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