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Does Expertise Influence the Impact of Overconfidence on Judgment, Valuation and Investment Decision?
Lambert, Jerome - 2012
Empirical research documents that overconfidence has a strong impact on investment decision. In this experimental study …), control in the role of risk aversion, and implement different measures of overconfidence (miscalibration in two formats – the … in the degree of overconfidence. However, overconfidence seems to determine decision-making in a different way across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101495
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Security returns and tax aversion bias: Behavioral responses to tax labels
Blaufus, Kay; Möhlmann, Axel - 2012
This paper studies behavioral responses to taxes in financial markets. It is motivated by recent puzzling empirical evidence of taxable municipal bond yields significantly exceeding the level expected relative to tax exempt bonds. A behavioral explanation is a tax aversion bias, the phenomenon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309353
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Security returns and tax aversion bias: Behavioral responses to tax labels
Blaufus, Kay; Möhlmann, Axel - arqus - Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre - 2012
This paper studies behavioral responses to taxes in financial markets. It is motivated by recent puzzling empirical evidence of taxable municipal bond yields significantly exceeding the level expected relative to tax exempt bonds. A behavioral explanation is a tax aversion bias, the phenomenon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983366
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Is underconfidence favored over overconfidence? : an experiment on the perception of a biased self-assessment
Thoma, Carmen - 2013
observe that underconfidence beats overconfidence in both respects. Underconfident subjects are rewarded significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350220
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Overconfidence increases productivity
Kinari, Yusuke; Mizutani, Noriko; Ohtake, Fumio; … - 2011
structures. We conduct maze-solving experiments under both reward structures and reveal that overconfidence is a significant … factor in increasing productivity. Specifically, subjects exhibiting progressively higher degrees of overconfidence solve … more mazes. This result shows a positive aspect of overconfidence, which usually has been examined in its negative aspect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332484
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Do women have more shame than men? An experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself
Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2014
We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427160
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Do Women Have More Shame than Men? An Experiment on Self-Assessment and the Shame of Overestimating Oneself
Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2012
We analyze how subjects’ self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427624
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Is Underconfidence Favored over Overconfidence? An Experiment on the Perception of a Biased Self-Assessment
Thoma, Carmen - 2013
observe that underconfidence beats overconfidence in both respects. Underconfident subjects are rewarded significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427652
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Do women have more shame than men? : an experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself
Ludwig, Sandra; Thomas, Carmen - 2012
We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526170
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Self-confidence and strategic behavior
Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - 2013
salient perturbations, we propose a strategic foundation of overconfidence. Since overconfident statements are used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223063