Investor attention, overconfidence and category learning

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 563-602

  Peng, Lin ^a   Xiong, Wei ^b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral biases; Category effects; Comovement; Limited attention; Return predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646497234     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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