Why are some favourite-longshot biases positive and others negative?

Applied Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1505-1510

  Williams, Leighton Vaughan ^a   Paton, David ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000557635     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368498324841     Document Type: Article

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