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The Investment Puzzle: Unveiling Behavioral Finance, Risk Perception, and Financial Literacy

ECONOMICS
Volume 13 (2025): Issue 1 (March 2025)
By: Bashar Yaser Almansour,  Ammar Yaser Almansour,  Sabri Elkrghli and  Seyed Amirhossein Shojaei  
Open Access
|Dec 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2025-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2303-5013 | Journal ISSN: 2303-5005
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Language: English
Page range: 131 - 151
Submitted on: May 4, 2024
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Accepted on: Dec 26, 2024
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Published on: Dec 6, 2024
Published by: Oikos Institut d.o.o.
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year
Keywords:
behavior finance,
risk perception,
financial literacy,
investment decisions
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures,
Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics,
Public finance and fiscal theory

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