Reconsidering the Effect of Market Experience on the "Endowment Effect"

Econometrica

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2005-2019

  Engelmann, Dirk ^a,b   Hollard, Guillaume ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Endowment effect; Exchange asymmetry; Market experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650055310     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA8424     Document Type: Article

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