paper shows that financial regulation can be effective at mitigating this type of risk. Exploiting regulatory changes … introduced after the financial crisis as a natural experiment, I find that overconfidence-induced risk-taking decreases in … financial institutions subject to stricter regulation. Following the easing of these regulations, overconfidence-induced risk …

mitigation. We conducted a framed-field experiment among a Germany-wide sample to provide a revealed preference study on the …

“Top 5” economics journals. Second, a field experiment at four different open access medical journals elicits authors’ self …

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities … confidence about one's own ability on two central choices made by workers in the labor market: choosing between jobs with … confidence leads to an increase in subjects' propensity to choose payment schemes that depend heavily on ability. This is …

In a n experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donation s to a charity. Compared to the control group …

In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality …