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Director overconfidence

Financial Management, 2015
AbstractWe examine overconfident chief executive officer (CEO) directors and find they attend more board meetings, are more likely to serve on the nominating or the compensation committee, have more independent directorships, and foster higher attendance rates on boards.
Beavers, Randy, Mobbs, Shawn
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BAYESIAN OVERCONFIDENCE.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2007
We study three distinct measures of overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one's performance, (2) overplacement of one's performance relative to others, and (3) overprecision in one's belief about private signals. A new set of experiments verifies a strong negative link between overestimation and overprecision that depends crucially on task difficulty ...
Healy, Paul J., Moore, Don A.
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Overconfidence In Overconfidence

1991
Displays of “calibration curves” - very well replicated results of probability ratings on two-alternative knowledge questions - are often interpreted as an indication of human “overconfidence”. Several influential researchers see this phenomenon as another instance of selfserving and theory confirming biases. This interpretation of the empirical result
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