Trading performance, disposition effect, overconfidence, representativeness bias, and experience of emerging market investors

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 425-451

  Chen, Gongmeng ^a,f   Kim, Kenneth A ^b,e   Nofsinger, John R ^c   Rui, Oliver M ^d,g  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Chinese University of Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

^e 160 Jacobs Management Center   (United States)

^f HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^g CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Disposition effect; Investor behavior; Overconfidence; Representativeness bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 35349017830     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.561     Document Type: Article

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