Option pricing by students and professional traders: A behavioural investigation

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 497-510

  Abbink, Klaus ^a   Rockenbach, Bettina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

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EID: 33749667770     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1284     Document Type: Article

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