Markowitz in the brain?

Revue d'Economie Politique

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-95

  Preuschoff, Kerstin ^a   Quartz, Steven ^b   Bossaerts, Peter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making under uncertainty; Dopaminergic; Markowitz; Neuroeconomics; Neurofinance; Portfolio theory; System

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349101294     PISSN: 03732630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/redp.181.0075     Document Type: Review

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