Do Experts in Financial Magazines Exhibit the Representativeness Heuristic? Evidence from Taiwan
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عنوان ژورنال: Accounting and Finance Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1927-5994,1927-5986
DOI: 10.5430/afr.v5n4p49