Coherence and consistency of investors' probability judgments

Management Science

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1731-1744

  Budescu, David V ^a   Du, Ning ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Confidence intervals; Forecasts; Investment decision; Overconfidence; Probability judgments; Response modes

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; INVESTMENT DECISION; PROBABILITY JUDGMENTS; RESPONSE MODES;

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 38549171432     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1070.0727     Document Type: Article

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