Mood impacts on probability weighting functions: "Large-gamble" evidence

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1397-1411

  Kliger, Doron ^a   Levy, Ori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Coral Capital Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Market data; Mood; Non expected utility; Probability weighting functions; SAD; Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349147840     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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