Are small investors naive about incentives?

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 457-489

  Malmendier, Ulrike ^a   Shanthikumar, Devin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral finance; Conflicts of interest; Individual and institutional investors; Stock recommendations; Trade reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447622112     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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