Default effects, transaction costs, and imperfect information

Economics Letters

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-215

  Wilson, Chris M ^a   Garrod, Luke ^a   Munro, Alistair ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Default effect; Imperfect information; Transaction cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875584654     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.02.022     Document Type: Article

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