Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking: Evidence from Retail Forex Trading
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- Itzhak Ben-David & Justin Birru & Viktor Prokopenya, 2018. "Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking: Evidence from Retail Forex Trading [Two methods of reducing overconfidence]," Review of Finance, European Finance Association, vol. 22(6), pages 2009-2036.
- Itzhak Ben-David & Justin Birru & Viktor Prokopenya, 2016. "Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking: Evidence from Retail Forex Trading," NBER Working Papers 22146, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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