Overconfident: Do you put your money on it?

Economic Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 503, 2005, Pages 305-318

  Hoelzl, Erik ^a   Rustichini, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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ECONOMICS;

EID: 17744385940     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2005.00990.x     Document Type: Article

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