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Endowment effects? “Even” with half a million on the table!

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  • Pavlo Blavatskyy
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  • Pavlo Blavatskyy & Ganna Pogrebna, 2010. "Endowment effects? “Even” with half a million on the table!," Theory and Decision, Springer, vol. 68(1), pages 173-192, February.
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    DOI: 10.1007/s11238-009-9152-4
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