"Personal influence": Social context and political competition

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 307-327

  Galeotti, Andrea ^a   Mattozzi, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 79958142638     PISSN: 19457669     EISSN: 19457685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mic.3.1.307     Document Type: Article

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