Do financial advisors exhibit myopic loss aversion?

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-170

  Eriksen, Kristoffer W ^a   Kvaløy, Ola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Experiment; Myopic loss aversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952092927     PISSN: 15554961     EISSN: 1555497X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11408-009-0124-z     Document Type: Article

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