What's causing overreaction? An experimental investigation of recency and the hot-hand effect

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 533-554

  Offerman, Theo ^a   Sonnemans, Joep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experiments; Hot hand; Overreaction; Recency; Scoring rule

Indexed keywords

MARKET CONDITIONS;

EID: 10444231965     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2004.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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