Endowment effects? "even" with half a million on the table!

Theory and Decision

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 173-192

  Blavatskyy, Pavlo ^a   Pogrebna, Ganna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b International Affairs Building 420 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Endowment effect; Expected utility theory; Prospect theory; Television show

Indexed keywords

ENDOWMENT EFFECT; EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; PROSPECT THEORY; TELEVISION SHOWS;

EID: 74849098091     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: 15737187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11238-009-9152-4     Document Type: Article

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