Ethnic diversity deflates price bubbles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 52, 2014, Pages 18524-18529

  Levine, Sheen S ^a,b   Apfelbaum, Evan P ^c   Bernard, Mark ^d   Bartelt, Valerie L ^e   Zajac, Edward J ^f   Stark, David ^a,g  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Diversity; Economics; Markets; Psychology; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARKET; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORK EXPERIENCE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MALE; MARKETING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84924308730     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407301111     Document Type: Article

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