The behavioral relevance of mental accounting for the pricing of financial options

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 513-527

  Rockenbach, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arbitrage; Bounded rationality; Mental accounts; Option pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347568496     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(03)00097-0     Document Type: Article

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