Experiments with the Traveler's Dilemma: Welfare, strategic choice and implicit collusion

Social Choice and Welfare

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 575-595

  Basu, Kaushik ^a   Becchetti, Leonardo ^b   Stanca, Luca ^c  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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EID: 80053110025     PISSN: 01761714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00355-011-0577-7     Document Type: Article

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