The performance of amateur traders on a public internet site: a case of a stock-exchange contest
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- Philippe Bernard & Michel Blanchard, 2013. "The performance of amateur traders on a public internet site: a case of a stock-exchange contest," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 33(3), pages 1729-1737.
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Behavioral finance; finance; online trading; amateur traders ; e-pigeons; trade losses;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MST-2011-11-01 (Market Microstructure)
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