Learning to be overconfident

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-27

  Gervais, Simon ^b   Odean, Terrance ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0035583183     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/14.1.1     Document Type: Article

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