Can information alleviate overconfidence? A randomized experiment on financial market predictions
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- Takanori Ida & Ryo Okui, 2019. "Can information alleviate overconfidence? A randomized experiment on financial market predictions," Working Paper Series no126, Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University.
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Keywords
Overcon dence; information provision; randomized controlled trial; online experiment; stock market prediction.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2019-10-21 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2019-10-21 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ORE-2019-10-21 (Operations Research)
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