Coelho, Marta - In: Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican … 10 (2012) 3, pp. 226-238
Purpose – Unrealistic optimism is a well‐documented psychological phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to discuss …. Design/methodology/approach – Critical review of existing literature on Unrealistic Optimism. Analyses of some relevant … that Unrealistic Optimism may well have been at play in the recent behaviour of mortgage and corporate credit markets in …