Managerial overconfidence : different thinking through different education / Maximilian Margolin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margolin, Maximilian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Finance--Econometric models.

Corporations.

Financial executives--Behavior.

Financial executives.

Chief financial officers--Behavior.

Chief financial officers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In literature, overconfidence has been blamed for economic bubbles and crises as well as for international conflicts and wars. While education has already been shown to impact one's level of overconfidence previous research focused on the length and profoundness of education. This study, in contrast, examines the connection between overconfidence and the field in which a person has been educated. The issues covered are therefore how education and mind set are related, why a differentiation between "quantitative" and "qualitative" education makes sense in this context, and how different mind-se

Contents:

Managerial Overconfidence; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Purpose of this Study; 1.2 Course of Investigation; 2 Concept of Overconfidence; 2.1 Theoretical Concept; 2.2 Managerial Overconfidence; 2.3 Criticism; 3 Sources of Overconfidence; 3.1 Principal Sources; 3.2 Influencing Factors; 4 Implications of Overconfidence; 4.1 Better-Than-Average Effect; 4.2 Implications for Finance; 4.3 Implications for Entrepreneurship; 4.4 Implications for Management; 4.5 Implications for Economics; 5 Motivation for my Research

5.1 Empirical Evidence5.2 Experimental Evidence; 5.3 Discussion; 6 Dual Reasoning and Overconfidence; 6.1 Concept of Dual Reasoning; 6.2 Differences in Reasoning; 6.3 Reasoning Systems and Overconfidence; 6.4 Differences in Training and Overconfidence; 7 Experimental Approach; 7.1 Hypothesis; 7.2 Preliminary Considerations; 7.3 Experimental Setup; 7.4 Additional Testing; 7.5 Interpretation of Results; 8 Conclusion; 8.1 Summary; 8.2 Outlook; 9 References; 10 Appendix

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-628-1

OCLC:

871780065