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Paper provided by CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich in its series CER-ETH Economics working paper series with number 02/23.

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Date of creation: May 2002
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Keywords: risk; ambiguity; overconfidence; gender; financial decision making; economic experiments;

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