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Judgmental overconfidence and trading activity

Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2012

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 …

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Will women be women?: analyzing the gender difference among financial experts

Beckmann, Daniela; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2008

There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … competition in the tournament scenario. The expected lower degree of overconfidence by women is yet so small that it becomes …

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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...

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Examination behavior: Gender differences in preferences?

Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2013

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in preferences in examination behavior. Students have the possibility of attaining a seminar bonus on the final exam for near-perfect seminar attendance and are given two voluntary initial...

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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...

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Judgmental overconfidence : three measures, one bias?

Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 33 (2012) 1, pp. 142-154

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Gender and corporate finance : are male executives overconfident relative to female executives?

Huang, Jiekun; Kisgen, Darren J. - In: Journal of financial economics 108 (2013) 3, pp. 822-839

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Preferences and biases in educational choices and labor market expectations : shrinking the black box of gender

Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2013

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students’ levels of overconfidence, and preferences for … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, are systematically related with expectations about future earnings: Individuals … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18 percent of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These …

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Preferences and biases in educational choices and labor market expectations : shrinking the black box of gender

Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2013

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792974

Gender and redistribution : experimental evidence

Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender differences in confidence concerning future relative income...

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