Distributional preferences and competitive behavior

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-135

  Balafoutas, Loukas ^a   Kerschbamer, Rudolf ^a   Sutter, Matthias ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Distributional preferences; Gender gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862580751     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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