Self-Serving Attribution Bias, Overconfidence, and the Issuance of Management Forecasts
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Accounting Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0021-8456
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-679x.2011.00430.x