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Curbing Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation in Planning: Reference Class Forecasting in Practice

Bent Flyvbjerg Aalborg University, Denmark and Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 3-21 | Received 01 May 2006, Accepted 01 Aug 2006, Published online: 17 Dec 2007

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