Faith in intuition and behavioral biases

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 182-192

  Alós Ferrer, Carlos ^a   Hügelschäfer, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian updating; Behavioral biases; Conservatism; Intuition; Reinforcement; Representativeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866277879     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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