Testing Social Preferences for an Economic "Bad": An Artefactual Field Experiment

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-61

  Keisner, Deborah Kerley ^a   Messer, Kent D ^b   Schulze, William D ^a   Zarghamee, Homa ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artefactual field experiment; C93; D71; Economic bad; Majority rules voting; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; MODELING; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

BLATTARIA;

EID: 84872662555     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01745.x     Document Type: Article

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