Experience and confidence in an Internet-based asset market experiment

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-52

  Fiedler, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

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EID: 80051720006     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4284/0038-4038-78.1.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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