Experimental tests of the endowment effect and the Coase theorem

Advances in Behavioral Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 55-74

  Kahneman, Daniel ^a   Knetsch, Jack L ^b   Thaler, Richard H ^c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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