There are various reasons why some entrepreneurs may be more overoptimistic at the start of their ventures than others. We distinguish between four broad categories of determining factors and three areas of overoptimism (income, psychological burden and leisure time) and empirically investigate those for a sample of Dutch start-ups. The first category is information. We find that more specifica...

This paper concerns the relation between a proof’s beauty and its explanatory power — that is, its capacity to go beyond proving a given theorem to explaining why that theorem holds. Explanatory power and beauty are among the many virtues that mathematicians value and seek in various proofs, and it is important to come to a better understanding of the relations among these virtues. Mathematical...

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in this paper the ability of economic and accounting performance measures in explaining values of companies have been evaluated. economic value added, refined economic value added and market value added are as economic performance measures and net income, operating income and operating cash flows is considered as accounting performance measures. in order to data analyzing and testing the search...