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Information and competition entry [PDF]

, 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where ...
Ewers, Mara
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Construction and validation of an overconfidence scale in investment decisions

Future Business Journal
Existing studies that directly measure the three types of overconfidence—overprecision, overplacement, and overestimation—are largely exploratory, highlighting the need for further confirmatory research to establish robust overconfidence measures ...
Daniel Fonseca Costa, Cláudia Cardoso Soares, Bruno César de Melo Moreira, Adriano Olímpio Tonelli   +3 more
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The Discouraging Effect of Overconfidence

Southern Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 3, Page 716-727, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Overconfidence is often viewed as encouraging entrepreneurs and CEOs to follow risky strategies such as entering new markets, engaging in innovation, or pursuing mergers and acquisitions. While such undertakings can generate excess returns and profits, overconfidence is frequently offered as an explanation for why so many business ventures ...
Cary Deck, Klajdi Bregu
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Confidence and information usage: Evidence from soil testing in India 

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 107, Issue 5, Page 1406-1437, October 2025.
Abstract Informational barriers are often considered to be a major constraint to the adoption of improved farming practices, inputs, and technologies by smallholder farmers. In the Indian context, it is widely believed that farmers misapply chemical fertilizers because they lack scientific information on soil conditions and corresponding fertilizer ...
Jared Gars, Ram Fishman, Avinash Kishore, Yoav Rothler, Patrick S. Ward   +4 more
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Seeking the roots of entrepreneurship: Insights from behavioral economics [PDF]

, 2018
There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral ...
Herz, Holger, Nanda, Ramana, Weber, Roberto A., Åstebro, Thomas   +3 more
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The Role of Monetary Incentives and Feedback on How Well Students Calibrate Their Academic Performance

European Journal of Education, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Students' accurate monitoring of their own performance is essential for achieving successful learning processes. In this work, we have aimed at analysing the role played by monetary incentives and by metacognitive feedback in improving students' miscalibration of their academic performance.
Gerardo Sabater‐Grande, Noemí Herranz‐Zarzoso, Aurora García‐Gallego   +2 more
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Earn More Tomorrow: Overconfidence, Income Expectations, and Consumer Indebtedness

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1071-1102, August 2025.
Abstract This paper examines whether biased income expectations due to overconfidence lead to higher levels of debt taking. We show suggestive evidence for a link between overconfidence and borrowing behavior in a representative survey of German households (German Socio‐Economic Panel–Innovation Sample [GSOEP‐IS]).
ANTONIA GROHMANN, LUKAS MENKHOFF, CHRISTOPH MERKLE, RENKE SCHMACKER   +3 more
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Self‐serving attribution and managerial investment decision

Bulletin of Economic Research, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 749-772, July 2024.
Abstract This study examines whether managerial overconfidence coupled with self‐attribution bias distorts the investment decisions of firms. To this end, we investigate the impact of overconfidence on asymmetric investment cash flow sensitivity (ICS).
Chune Young Chung, Changhwan Choi, Amirhossein Fard   +2 more
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Modelling the composition of household portfolios: A latent class approach

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 243-275, February / Février 2024.
Abstract We explore portfolio allocation in Great Britain by introducing a latent class modelling approach using household panel data based on a nationally representative sample of the population, namely the Wealth and Assets Survey. The latent class aspect of the model splits households into four groups, from lowest‐wealth and least‐diversified ...
Raslan Alzuabi, Sarah Brown, Mark N. Harris, Karl Taylor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source