DOSPERT's gambling risk-taking propensity scale predicts excessive stock trading

Journal of Behavioral Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-78

  Markiewicz, Łukasz ^a   Weber, Elke U ^b  

^a KOZMINSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Day trading; Domain specific risk taking; DOSPERT scale; Risk attitude; Trading volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878249199     PISSN: 15427560     EISSN: 15427579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2013.762000     Document Type: Article

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