Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?

Journal of Choice Modelling

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-133

  Carlsson, Fredrik ^a   Daruvala, Dinky ^b   Jaldell, Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cheap talk; Choice experiment; Stated preferences; Third person approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870391885     PISSN: 17555345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1755-5345(13)70038-1     Document Type: Article

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