Journal of Risk and Financial ManagementOverconfidence (hubris or overestimation of one’s ability to perform) has been viewed in the finance literature as a character trait that is stable over time, e.g., assuming that if a manager is overconfident, he/she is overconfident all the time.
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Managerial overconfidence and the buyback anomaly [PDF]
Journal of Empirical Finance, 2018 Abstract While positive, long-run abnormal returns following share repurchase announcements are substantially lower when CEOs are overconfident. This effect is particularly strong for (i) difficult to value firms, such as small, young, non-dividend paying, distressed, and having negative earnings firms, (ii) firms with poor past stock return ...
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Examining managerial overconfidence behavioral explanation effect on cost stickiness: Comparison with economic and agency theory based factors [PDF]
بررسیهای حسابداری و حسابرسی, 2014 Managerial overconfidence behavioral factor causes cost asymmetric. Prior literature focuses on economic and agency explanations about cross sectional variation in the degree of cost stickiness.
Mehdi Heidari
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Managerial Overconfidence and Unqualified Audit Opinion [PDF]
پژوهشهای تجربی حسابداری, 2018 Overconfidence is one of the most important personal characteristics of managers. Theoretically, Manager’s riskiness is directly related to this characteristic.
Maryam Semyari, Bahman Banimahd
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The effect of managerial overconfidence on the conservatism with respect to the role of external monitoring [PDF]
بررسیهای حسابداری و حسابرسی, 2015 This study investigates the effect of managerial overconfidence on both conditional and unconditional conservatism considering the role of external monitoring.
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The Effect of Managerial Overconfidence on Firm Value: Evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange [PDF]
Management and Economics Review, 2021 Managers of a company are responsible for enhancing shareholder wealth. However, decisions made by managers are not always rational, and such irrational decisions could have a direct impact on the value of a firm, and thus, the wealth of its shareholders.
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Evaluation of Managerial Overconfidence, Cash Holding, and Investment Efficiency in Companies
Journal of Mathematics, 2021 Managers’ overconfidence leads to overestimating their ability to manage cash sources. Holding more cash may result in overinvestment in projects and investment inefficiency consequently.
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Impacts of Managerial Overconfidence and Agency Costs on Cash Holdings Within Blockchain Firms
IEEE Access, 2021 We study the effects of managerial overconfidence and agency costs on cash holdings of blockchain firms, where the overconfidence is defined as a cognitive bias that a manager will underestimate volatility in an uncertain environment.
Teng Niu, Xi Zhao
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Relationships between Managerial Overconfidence, Internal Financing and Investment Efficiency [PDF]
مجله دانش حسابداری, 2020 Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between management overconfidence, internal financing, and investment efficiency in the companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange.
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Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies [PDF]
, 2007 Miscalibration is a standard measure of overconfidence in both psychology and economics. Although it is often used in lab experiments, there is scarcity of evidence about its effects in practice. We test whether top corporate executives are miscalibrated, and whether their miscalibration impacts investment behavior.
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