Investing in stocks: The influence of financial risk attitude and values-related money and stock market attitudes

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-303

  Keller, Carmen ^a   Siegrist, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethical stance toward the stock market; Financial risk attitude; Gender; Investing in stocks; Money attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644778652     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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