Overconfidence among professional investors: Evidence from mutual fund managers

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 38, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 684-712

  Puetz, Alexander ^a   Ruenzi, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral biases; Mutual funds; Overconfidence; Professional investors

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960082197     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2010.02237.x     Document Type: Article

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