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Testing models of belief bias
| dc.contributor.author | Coutts, Alexander | |
| dc.contributor.institution | NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE) | |
| dc.contributor.pbl | Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-17T23:43:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-01-17T23:43:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-01 | |
| dc.description | Submitted 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Optimistic beliefs affect important areas of economic decision making, yet direct knowledge on how belief biases operate remains limited. To better understand these biases I introduce a theoretical framework that trades off anticipatory benefits against two potential costs of forming biased beliefs: (1) material costs which result from poor decisions, of Brunnermeier and Parker (2005), and (2) direct psychological costs of distorting reality, of Bracha and Brown (2012). The experiment exploits the potential of the BDM elicitation procedure adopted to lotteries to distort beliefs in different directions, depending on which costs are most important. Relative to an elicitation procedure without distortionary incentives, beliefs are biased in the optimistic direction. Increasing payments for accuracy further increases belief reports, in many cases away from the truth, consistent with psychological costs of belief distortion. Yet the overall results suggest that such theories of optimism fail to explain how beliefs respond to financial incentives. | en |
| dc.description.version | preprint | |
| dc.description.version | published | |
| dc.format.extent | 1082999 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.geb.2018.11.001 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0899-8256 | |
| dc.identifier.other | PURE: 6590399 | |
| dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 374635c5-77a2-4bca-b9b6-7e19bb221ecd | |
| dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85057417695 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057417695&partnerID=8YFLogxK | |
| dc.identifier.url | https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85057417695 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.subject | Affective expected utility | |
| dc.subject | Anticipation | |
| dc.subject | Beliefs | |
| dc.subject | Optimism | |
| dc.subject | Overconfidence | |
| dc.subject | Pessimism | |
| dc.subject | Finance | |
| dc.subject | Economics and Econometrics | |
| dc.title | Testing models of belief bias | en |
| dc.title.subtitle | an experiment | en |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| degois.publication.firstPage | 549 | |
| degois.publication.lastPage | 565 | |
| degois.publication.title | Games And Economic Behavior | |
| degois.publication.volume | 113 | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess |
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