How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-23

  Herz, Holger ^a   Schunk, Daniel ^b   Zehnder, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Experiment; Innovation; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897004692     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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