Investor regret: The role of expectation in comparing what is to what might have been
Investors, like any decision maker, feel regret when they compare the outcome of an investment with what the outcome would have been had they invested differently. We argue and show that this counterfactual comparison process is most likely to take place when the decision maker's expectations a...
Main Authors: | Wen-Hsien Huang, Marcel Zeelenberg |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
2012-07-01
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Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/11/11303/jdm11303.pdf |
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