Overconfidence and moral hazard

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 429-451

  de la Rosa, Leonidas Enrique ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous beliefs; Moral Hazard; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053599289     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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