Does overconfidence affect corporate investment? CEO overconfidence measures revisited

European Financial Management

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 649-659

  Malmendier, Ulrike ^a   Tate, Geoffrey ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural corporate finance; CEO overconfidence; Corporate investment; D80; G14; G31; G32

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549030749     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-7798.2005.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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