Do individual investors learn from their trading experience?

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-336

  Nicolosi, Gina ^a   Peng, Liang ^b   Zhu, Ning ^c,d  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LEHMAN BROTHERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual investors; Learning; Rationality; Trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649152137     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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