Cross-cultural overconfidence and biased self-attribution

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1815-1824

  Acker, Daniella ^a   Duck, Nigel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural finance; Biased self attribution; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849125126     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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