How do investors judge the risk of financial items?

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 221-241

  Koonce, Lisa ^a   McAnally, Mary Lea ^b   Mercer, Molly ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision theory; Psychology; Risk disclosure; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844272279     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.1.221     Document Type: Review

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