Contagion of wishful thinking in markets

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 738-751

  Seybert, Nicholas ^a   Bloomfield, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Betting; Contagion; Desirability bias; Gambling; Information aggregation; Investing; Investors; Markets; Motivated reasoning; Unrealistic optimism; Wishful thinking

Indexed keywords

BETTING; CONTAGION; DESIRABILITY BIAS; GAMBLING; INFORMATION AGGREGATION; INVESTING; INVESTORS; MARKETS; MOTIVATED REASONING; UNREALISTIC OPTIMISM; WISHFUL THINKING;

COMMERCE;

EID: 65249152474     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0973     Document Type: Article

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