Enjoy the silence: An experiment on truth-telling

Experimental Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 220-241

  Sánchez Pagés, Santiago ^a   Vorsatz, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Foundation for Applied Economic Research FEDEA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Experiment; Lying aversion; Social preferences; Strategic information transmission; Truth telling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349102294     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-008-9211-7     Document Type: Article

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