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Overconfidence, stability and investments [PDF]
Abstract The available evidence from numerous studies suggests that overconfidence varies significantly across countries. We develop a model that endogenizes these differences and examines their economic consequences. A crucial determinant of differences in overconfidence is the degree of expected stability of the environment, with greater ...
Dessi, Roberta, Zhao, Xiaojian
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CEO Over-confidence and Corporate Cash Holdings: Emphasizing the Moderating Role of Audit Quality [PDF]
Objective: Since cash has a pivotal role in going concern, financial flexibility and utilizing investment opportunities, managers have sufficient motivation to hold cash.
Narges Sarlak +3 more
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Overconfidence over the lifespan [PDF]
AbstractThis research investigated how different forms of overconfidence correlate with age. Contrary to stereotypes that young people are more overconfident, the results provide little evidence that overestimation of one’s performance or overplacement of one’s performance relative to that of others is correlated with age.
Prims, Julia P, Moore, Don A
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Overconfidence in Interval Estimates. [PDF]
Judges were asked to make numerical estimates (e.g., "In what year was the first flight of a hot air balloon?"). Judges provided high and low estimates such that they were X% sure that the correct answer lay between them. They exhibited substantial overconfidence: The correct answer fell inside their intervals much less than X% of the time.
Jack B. Soll, Joshua Klayman
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Overconfidence, Insurance, and Paternalism [PDF]
It is well known that when agents are fully rational, compulsory public insurance may make all agents better off in the Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) model of insurance markets. We find that when sufficiently many agents underestimate their personal risks, compulsory insurance makes low-risk agents worse off.
Alvaro Sandroni, Francesco Squintani
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INVESTOR PSYCHOLOGY AND DECISION MAKING; BASED ON OVERCONFIDENCE AND SELF ATTRIBUTION BIAS: EVIDENCE FROM ISLAMABAD STOCK EXCHANGE (ISE) [PDF]
The literature in behavioural finance and behavioural economics deviates from the conventional economic model in incorporating behavioural evidence on non-standard preferences and values, such as loss aversion, self-deception or attribution, or ...
Sadaf Rabeea, Younis Aqeel
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The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between the CEO overconfidence and the subsequent performance. Furthermore, the study examines the intermediary role of Real Earnings Management (REM).
M. A. Fahd
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HUBUNGAN MANAGERIAL OVERCONFIDENCE, KEPEMILIKAN PEMERINTAH DAN KEPUTUSAN PEMBIAYAAN PERUSAHAAN
This study examines the effect of managerial overconfidence on corporate financing which measured by leverage ratio. Also it investigates the moderating effect of government ownership on the relationship between managerial overconfidence and leverage ...
Dewi Puji Lestari, Faisal Faisal
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Effects of instruction on students’ overconfidence in introductory quantum mechanics
Students’ ability to assess their own knowledge is an important skill in science education. However, students often overestimate their actual performances. In such cases, overconfidence bias arises.
Italo Testa +5 more
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Cash Holding Decision from Managerial Overconfidence and its Effect on Firm Performance
Managerial overconfidence significantly influences firm performance. The main purpose of this research is how to find the impact of managerial overconfidence along with cash holding decision might be more negatively serious on firm performance.
N.T.T. Dao
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