Does the Better-Than-Average Effect Show That People Are Overconfident?: An Experiment
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Keywords
Overconfidence; Better than Average; Experimental Economics; Irrationality; Signalling Models;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2009-02-07 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2009-02-07 (Experimental Economics)
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