Overconfidence and social signalling

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 949-983

  Burks, Stephen V ^a   Carpenter, Jeffrey P ^b   Goette, Lorenz ^c   Rustichini, Aldo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian updating; Confidence; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SIGNALING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84880720385     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rds046     Document Type: Article

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