Behavior under social pressure: Empty Italian stadiums and referee bias

Economics Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-214

  Pettersson Lidbom, Per ^a   Priks, Mikael ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Natural experiments; Referee bias; Social pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954033142     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.04.023     Document Type: Article

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