An unlucky feeling: Overconfidence and noisy feedback

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 510-524

  Grossman, Zachary ^a   Owens, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute performance; Bayesian updating; Biased updating; Cross game learning; Feedback; Information processing; Learning transfer; Overconfidence; Overestimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870695342     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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