Math skills and risk attitudes

Economics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 332-336

  Brañas Garza, Pablo ^a   Guillen, Pablo ^b   del Paso, Rafael López ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNICAJA ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision making under risk; GRE test; Math skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649108071     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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