Mental accounting and individual welfare

Perspectives on Framing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 65-92

  Soman, Dilip ^a   Ahn, Hee Kyung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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