Distinguishing the effect of overconfidence from rational best-response on information aggregation

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1889-1914

  Kogan, Shimon ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79956068656     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhn075     Document Type: Article

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