Speculating against an overconfident market

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-225

  Caballé, Jordi ^a   Sákovics, József ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Financial markets; Imperfect competition; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037383490     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-4181(01)00030-1     Document Type: Article

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