Judging the risk of financial instruments: Problems and potential remedies

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 871-895

  Koonce, Lisa ^a   Lipe, Marlys Gascho ^b   McAnally, Mary Lea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial instruments and derivatives; Investor behavior; Risk judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244461365     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.3.871     Document Type: Article

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