Risk-taking for others under accountability

Economics Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 102-105

  Pahlke, Julius ^a   Strasser, Sebastian ^a   Vieider, Ferdinand M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accountability; Loss aversion; Prospect theory; Responsibility; Risk attitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054872057     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.09.037     Document Type: Article

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