Market efficiency and biases in brokerage recommendations

Advances in Behavioral Finance

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 389-419

  Michaely, Roni ^a,b   Womack, Kent L ^c  

^a SAS Institute Inc   (United States)

^b INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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