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American Economic Review: Vol. 99 No. 2 (May 2009)

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Bartling, Bjorn, Ernst Fehr, Michel Andre Marechal, and Daniel Schunk. 2009. "Egalitarianism and Competitiveness." American Economic Review, 99(2): 93-98.

DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.2.93

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Bartling, Bjorn (Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, U Zurich)
Fehr, Ernst (Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, U Zurich)
Marechal, Michel Andre (Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, U Zurich)
Schunk, Daniel (Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, U Zurich)

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D12: Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D63: Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
D82: Asymmetric and Private Information