Overconfidence

Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 241-258

  Glaser, Markus ^a   Weber, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business source premier; Decision analysis; Miscalibration; Overconfidence; Stock price prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886115080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118258415.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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