It's commonly believed that managers with higher ability would be less likely to be taken over. We set out a model, which is built on Zwiebel (1996), to show that there is no monotonic relationship between manager's ability and the probability of being taken over. A manager with relatively high...

We discuss some problems with the modelling methods in the overconfidence literature. We argue that overconfidence models should be well constructed such that overconfident investors in the behavioural model could be distinguished clearly from the more informed investors in the rational...