Does the Better-than-Average Effect Show that People are Overconfident? : An Experiment

We conduct a proper test of the claim that people are overconfident, in the sense that they believe that they are better than others. The results of the experiment we present do not allow us to reject the hypotheses that the data has been generated by perfectly rational, unbiased, and appropriately confident agents

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Year of publication:	[2009]
Authors:	Benoit, Jean-Pierre
Other Persons:	Dubra, Juan (contributor) ; Moore, Don A. (contributor)
Publisher:	[2009]: [S.l.] : SSRN

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (21 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 4, 2009 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1337733 [DOI]
Classification:	D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory ; D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; D83 - Search, Learning, Information and Knowledge
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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