Salience and consumer choice

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 803-843

  Bordalo, Pedro ^a   Gennaioli, Nicola ^b   Shleifer, Andrei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; PRICE DYNAMICS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84890945557     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: 1537534X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673885     Document Type: Article

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