Experimental guidance for eliciting beliefs with the Stochastic Becker–DeGroot–Marschak mechanism

Journal of the Economic Science Association - Tập 4 Số 1 - Trang 15-28 - 2018
Ingrid Burfurd1, Tom Wilkening1
1Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia#TAB#

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