Adaptive behavior leads to under-diversification

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 985-995

  Zion, Uri Ben ^a   Erev, Ido ^b   Haruvy, Ernan ^c   Shavit, Tal ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d College of Management ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Diversification; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449299635     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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