Why inexperienced investors do not learn: They do not know their past portfolio performance

Finance Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 203-216

  Glaser, Markus ^a   Weber, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Better than average effect; Experience; Financial education; Financial literacy; Learning; Overconfidence; Perceived returns; Portfolio return; Return estimation; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348946839     PISSN: 15446123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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