Selection neglect in mutual fund advertisements

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1107-1121

  Koehler, Jonathan J ^a   Mercer, Molly ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial decision making; Mutual fund ads; Sample space; Selection bias; Statistical heuristics

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING; MUTUAL FUND ADS; SAMPLE SPACE; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICAL HEURISTICS;

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 68349095248     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1013     Document Type: Article

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