This paper presents an online-experiment on overconfidence in the context of financial markets. Our subject pool … participants can be controlled for in our analysis. It turns out that there are stable differences in overconfidence between the … three investor groups. Moreover, investment experience and age have a significant impact on the degree of overconfidence …

This paper contributes to the recent behavioral economics literature by showing that whether or not overconfidence … that overconfidence may overturn fundamental relations between observable variables in perfect-competition asymmetric … information insurance markets. In monopolistic insurance markets, in constrast, we find that overconfidence may be observationally …

’, estimating that it under-represents their score by 13%. However, they exhibit no such overconfidence in non-ego-relevant beliefs … ‘unlucky feeling’ is largely due to overconfident priors, with biased updating driving overconfidence only among the … than beliefs about a particular performance, contributing to the persistence of overconfidence. …

. The optimal agenda-setting power to the chairman is a strictly concave function of the degree of overconfidence. We also …

We investigate the theoretically proposed link between judgmental overconfidence and trading activity. In addition to … the relevant bias in the theoretical overconfidence literature. We relate the obtained overconfidence measures to trading …

underrepresentation of women, namely, gender differences in overconfidence concerning past performance, in the willingness to exaggerate … past performance to the group, and in the reaction to monetary incentives. We find that men's overconfidence is the driving …