Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1815-1851

  Leider, Stephen ^a   Möbius, Markus M ^a   Rosenblat, Tanya ^a   Do, Quoc Anh ^a  

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EID: 72449191233     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2009.124.4.1815     Document Type: Article

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