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- 1
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- 7-59
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William Samuelson,
Richard Zeckhauser
(1988).
Status quo bias in decision making.
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
, 1
(1)
, 7-59.
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00055564
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- DOI
- 10.1007/bf00055564