The willingness to pay-willingness to accept gap revisited: The role of emotions and moral satisfaction

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 908-917

  Biel, Anders ^a   Johansson Stenman, Olof ^b   Nilsson, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Emotions; Endowment effect; Ethics; Experiments; Willingness to pay willingness to accept gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052827684     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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