A new measurement method of investor overconfidence

Economics Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-71

  Huisman, Ronald ^a   van der Sar, Nico L ^a   Zwinkels, Remco C J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Investor overconfidence; Parkinson volatility; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054716562     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.09.022     Document Type: Article

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