Market experience eliminates some anomalies-and creates new ones

European Economic Review

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 401-416

  Braga, Jacinto ^a   Humphrey, Steven J ^b   Starmer, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Loss experience; Preference reversal; Price following; Refining; Vickrey auction

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; DECISION MAKING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 67349115734     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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