How riskily do i invest? The role of risk attitudes, risk perceptions, and overconfidence

Decision Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 282-301

  Nosi'c, Alen ^a   Weber, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extended content domain specificity; Overconfidence; Return perception; Risk attitude; Risk perception; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651292338     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1100.0178     Document Type: Article

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