An experimental test of the impact of overconfidence and gender on trading activity

Review of Finance

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 555-575

  Deaves, Richard ^a,b   Lüders, Erik ^c   Luo, Guo Ying ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Center for European Economic Research (ZEW)   (Germany)

^c MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 68349090699     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfn023     Document Type: Article

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