The house money effect and local traders on the Sydney Futures Exchange

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 8-25

  Frino, Alex ^a   Grant, Joel ^b   Johnstone, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioral finance; Disposition effect; Futures traders; House money effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549084011     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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