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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between market overconfidence and occurrence of stock-price bubbles. Sixty … participants traded stocks in ten experimental asset markets. Markets were constructed on the basis of subjects' overconfidence … bubble measures and trading volume on overconfident markets. Altogether, our data provide evidence that overconfidence has …

overconfidence in a contest can improve the agent's performance relative to an unbiased opponent and can even lead to an advantage …

and overconfidence in hard tasks) found in a large number of studies using non-incentivised self-reports. The latter …