Employee Investment Decisions about Company Stock

Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Choi, James J ^a   Laibson, David ^a   Madrian, Brigitte ^b   Metrick, Andrew ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Company stock; Decision making; Employee investment; Investment behaviour; Trading; Trading behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920063343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199273391.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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