Narrow bracketing and dominated choices

American Economic Review

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1508-1543

  Rabin, Matthew ^a   Weizsäcker, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 67349157847     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.4.1508     Document Type: Article

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