Distinguishing between cognitive biases

Behavioral Public Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 47-81

  Fang, Hanming ^a   Silverman, Dan ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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