Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects: Evidence From a Field Experiment on Financial Decisions

DOI10.3982/ECTA11991zbMath1419.91174OpenAlexW3008566380MaRDI QIDQ4615877

Bruno Ferman, Noam Yuchtman, Leonardo Bursztyn, Florian Ederer

Publication date: 29 January 2019

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3982/ecta11991

zbMATH Keywords

social learningfield experimentpeer effectsbehavioral finance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Portfolio theory (91G10) Experimental studies (91A90)

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