Shimon Kogan, Shimon; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many … contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self …-serving biases in information processing-documented for beliefs about individual outcomes-affect beliefs about collective outcomes …