Are two heads better than one? an experiment with novice share traders

Australian Journal of Management

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-142

  Heaney, Richard ^a   Foster, F Douglas ^b   Gregor, Shirley ^b   O'Neill, Terry ^b   Wood, Robert ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Share market trading; teams versus individual trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251505214     PISSN: 03128962     EISSN: 13272020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0312896210370078     Document Type: Article

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