A theory of reference-dependent behavior

Economic Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 427-455

  Apesteguia, Jose ^a   Ballester, Miguel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Addiction; Habit formation; Individual rationality; Path independence; Rationalization; Reference dependence; Status quo bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650973684     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-008-0387-z     Document Type: Article

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