Irrational exuberance, entrepreneurial finance and public policy

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 391-417

  Coelho, Marta ^a   De Meza, David ^a   Reyniers, Diane ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiments; Finance; Policy; Unrealistic optimism

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142765607     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ITAX.0000033985.96539.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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