Money illusion in intuitive financial judgments: Influences of nominal representation of share prices

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 698-712

  Svedsäter, Henrik ^a   Gamble, Amelie ^a   Gärling, Tommy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Financial judgment; Money illusion; Stock market

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548031618     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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