The willingness to pay - Willingness to accept gap, the "endowment effect," subject misconceptions, and experimental procedures for eliciting valuations: Comment

American Economic Review

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 991-1011

  Isoni, Andrea ^a   Loomes, Graham ^a   Sugden, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79955019164     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.2.991     Document Type: Note

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