Does society benefit from investor overconfidence in the ability of financial market experts?

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 95-116

  Berg, Nathan ^a   Lein, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Disagreement; Expert; Financial markets; Heterogeneous beliefs; Overconfidence; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044460210     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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