Out of sight, out of mind? Evidence of perceptual factors in the multiple-category discount

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 171-184

  Leung, Ming D ^a   Sharkey, Amanda J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Collective production market; Difference in difference; Natural experiment; Peer to peer lending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893372611     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2013.0828     Document Type: Article

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