Exponential growth bias and financial literacy
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Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy are negatively correlated in a representative sample of Swedish adults. Since financi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Economics Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1350-4851,1466-4291
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.652772