Does the Better - Than - Average Effect

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  • Juan Dubra
  • Don Moore
  • Jean-Pierre Benoît
  • Juan Dubray
چکیده

We conduct a proper test of the claim that people are overcon…dent, in the sense that they believe that they are better than others. The results of the experiment we present do not allow us to reject the hypotheses that the data has been generated by perfectly rational, unbiased, and appropriately con…dent agents. Keywords: Overcon…dence; Better than Average; Experimental Economics; Irrationality; Signalling Models. Journal of Economic Literature Classi…cation Numbers: D11, D12, D82, D83

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تاریخ انتشار 2009