Grohmann, Antonia; Menkhoff, Lukas; Merkle, Christoph; … - 2019
This paper examines whether biased income expectations due to overconfidence lead to higher levels of debt-taking. In a … lab experiment, participants can purchase goods by borrowing against their future income. We exogenously manipulate income … expectations by letting income depend on relative performance in hard and easy quiz tasks. We successfully generate biased income …