Social preferences and strategic uncertainty: An experiment on markets and contracts

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2261-2278

  Cabrales, Antonio ^a   Miniaci, Raffaele ^b   Piovesan, Marco ^c   Ponti, Giovanni ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

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EID: 78650441619     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.5.2261     Document Type: Article

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