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Overconfidence of professionals and lay men : individual differences within and between tasks?
Glaser, Markus
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Langer, Thomas
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Weber, Martin
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URL:
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http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/2646
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URN:
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-26465
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Document Type:
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Working paper
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Year of publication:
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2005
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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None
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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School of Law and Economics > Sonstige - Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre
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MADOC publication series:
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Sonderforschungsbereich 504 > Rationalitätskonzepte, Entscheidungsverhalten und ökonomische Modellierung (Laufzeit 1997 - 2008)
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Subject:
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330 Economics
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Classification:
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JEL:
G1 C9 ,
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Subject headings (SWD):
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Deutschland , Sachverständiger , Anlageverhalten , Theorie , Entscheidung bei Unsicherheit , Kognition
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Keywords (English):
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Overconfidence , judgment biases , individual differences , expert judgment
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Abstract:
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Overconfidence can manifest itself in various forms. For example, people think that their knowledge is more precise than it really is (miscalibration) and they believe that their abilities are above average (better than average effect). The questions whether judgment biases are related or whether stable individual differences in the degree of overconfidence exist, have long been unexplored. In this paper, we present two studies that analyze whether professional traders or investment bankers who work for international banks are prone to judgment biases to the same degree as a population of lay men. We examine whether there are robust individual differences in the degree of overconfidence within various tasks. Furthermore, we analyze whether the degree of judgment biases is correlated across tasks. Based on the answers of 123 professionals, we find that expert judgment is biased. In most tasks, their degrees of overconfidence are significantly higher than the respective scores of a student control group. In line with the literature, we find stable individual differences within tasks (e.g. in the degree of miscalibration). However, we find that correlations across distinct tasks are sometimes insignificant or even negative. We conclude that some manifestations of overconfidence, that are often argued to be related, are actually unrelated.
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