Are teams prone to myopic loss aversion? An experimental study on individual versus team investment behavior

Economics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 128-132

  Sutter, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Experiment; Myopic loss aversion; Risk; Team decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548480938     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.02.031     Document Type: Article

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