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How do ecologists estimate occupancy in practice?
Ecography, EarlyView.Over 20 years ago, ecologists were introduced to the site occupancy model (SOM) for estimating occupancy rates from detection‐nondetection data. In the ensuing decades, the SOM and its hierarchical modeling extensions have become mainstays of quantitative ecology, and estimating occupancy rates has become one of the most common applications of ...
Benjamin R. Goldstein +9 more
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Corporate Financial Policies With Overconfident Managers [PDF]
Many financing choices of US corporations remain puzzling even after accounting for standard determinants such as taxes, bankruptcy costs, and asymmetric information.
Geoffrey Tate +2 more
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European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the relationship between Chief Financial Officer (CFO) overconfidence and firm performance through the lens of environmental violations and constituency statutes. Drawing on stakeholder and upper echelons theories, we find that firms with overconfident CFOs are more likely to commit environmental violations, which ...
Panagiotis Andrikopoulos +4 more
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Behavioral Theories of the Business Cycle [PDF]
We explore the business cycle implications of expectation shocks and of two well-known psychological biases, optimism and overconfidence. The expectations of optimistic agents are biased toward good outcomes, while overconfident agents overestimate the ...
Nir Jaimovich, Sergio Rebelo
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Does an optimistic tone in annual reports predict better financial and non‐financial performance?
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract In the current paper, we investigate whether management adopts an optimistic disclosure tone to impress the corporate audience or to provide incremental information (II) by anticipating positive corporate performance. Specifically, we test whether an optimistic tone in annual reports (ARs) is a positive predictor of better financial and non ...
Francesco Gangi +3 more
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Overestimating the Self, Outranking the Group: An Experimental Study of Overconfidence Biases in Young Decision-Makers. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Güner Gültekin D, Akıncı FN.
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Are Overconfident CEOs Better Innovators? [PDF]
Using options- and press-based proxies for CEO overconfidence (Malmendier and Tate 2005a, 2005b, 2008), we find that over the 1993-2003 period, firms with overconfident CEOs have greater return volatility, invest more in innovation, obtain more patents ...
Hirshleifer, David +2 more
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CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence from Federal Law Violations
Md Ismail Haidar, Saha Iqbal Hossain
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Government support, regional well‐being, and the pivots of UK SMEs during a crisis
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Pivoting—a substantive transformation of the established business model (e.g., reformulation of goods, services, processes, or organizational methods in a new or significantly improved manner)—has emerged as a crisis response strategy of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).
Chau M. Chu, Bach Nguyen
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CEO overconfidence and dividend policy [PDF]
We develop a model of the effect of CEO overconfidence on dividend policy and empirically examine many of its predictions. Consistent with our main prediction, we find that the level of dividend payout is lower in firms managed by overconfident CEOs.
Anand M. Goel +2 more
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