Overconfidence and market efficiency with heterogeneous agents

Economic Theory

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 313-336

  García, Diego ^a   Sangiorgi, Francesco ^b,c   Urošević, Branko ^b,d  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

^c LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Information acquisition; Overconfidence; Partially revealing equilibria; Price informativeness; Rational expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845299820     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-005-0048-4     Document Type: Article

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