Representativeness in the market for bets on national football league games

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-124

  Tassoni, Charles John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making bias; Market efficiency; National Football League betting; Representativeness heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344450872     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(199606)9:2<115::AID-BDM220>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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