overconfidence would have an important impact on financial markets, among other domains, leading i.a. to excessive trading. The …

. Higher risk taking may be explained by a higher degree of overconfidence, less herding behavior, or a lower degree of risk … overconfidence is mixed. We will argue that this mixed evidence may be likely due to the heterogeneity in the employed definitions of … risk taking and overconfidence. …

overconfidence but due to the asymmetric information structure of the market. …

of overconfidence. …

We provide a preference-based rationale for endogenous overconfidence. Horizon-dependent risk aversion, combined with a … possibility to forget, can generate overconfidence and excessive risk taking in equilibrium. An "anxiety prone" agent, who is more … results to the literature on empirically observed overconfidence and excessive risk taking in several domains of financial and …

This experimental study measures three types of overconfidence in the decision behavior of participants from Germany … overconfidence, a pre-experimental questionnaire made this identity salient to a randomly selected treatment group. Previous studies …

-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated …