Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 374-387

  Loomes, Graham ^a   Starmer, Chris ^b   Sugden, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Preference reversal; Repeated market; Willingness to accept; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952890745     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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