Risky investment decisions: How are individuals influenced by their groups?

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 81-106

  Viscusi, W Kip ^a   Phillips, Owen R ^b   Kroll, Stephan ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Group decisions; Herding; Real time information

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052045317     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: 15730476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11166-011-9123-3     Document Type: Article

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