BIDDING BEHAVIOR AND DECISION COSTS IN FIELD EXPERIMENTS
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Inquiry
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0095-2583,1465-7295
DOI: 10.1093/ei/40.4.611