Are investors really willing to agree to disagree? An experimental investigation of how disagreement and attention to disagreement affect trading behavior

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 230-241

  Hales, Jeffrey ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Disagreement; Experimental economics; Mental models; Myopia; Trading volume; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649083350     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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