Paying for confidence: An experimental study of the demand for non-instrumental information

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  2010

• Venue

  Games Econ. Behav.

• Publication date

  2010-11-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Economics

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  DOI 10.1016/j.geb.2010.01.006
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