Incentive and informational properties of preference questions

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 37 Số 1 - Trang 181-210 - 2007
Richard T. Carson1, Theodore Groves1
1Department of Economics, 0508, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

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