A systematic comparison of professional exchange rate forecasts with the judgemental forecasts of novices

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-102

  Leitner, Johannes ^a   Schmidt, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral Finance; Expectation formation; Expertise; Forecasting; Foreign exchange market; Judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750928580     PISSN: 1435246X     EISSN: 16139178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-006-0161-x     Document Type: Article

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