Episode 2: Julia Shvets on Overconfident Managers
Julia Shvets is an Economist at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College.
The paper discussed in this episode is: Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers, by David Huffman, Collin Raymond, and Julia Shvets.
Other papers referenced in this episode are:
Bénabou, Roland, and Jean Tirole, “Self-confidence and personal motivation,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117 (3), 871–915.
Benoît, Jean-Pierre and Juan Dubra, “Apparent overconfidence,” Econometrica, 2011, 79 (5), 1591–1625.
Benoît, Jean-Pierre, Juan Dubra, and Don A Moore, “Does the better-than-average effect show that people are overconfident?: Two experiments,” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (2), 293–329.
Burks, Stephen V, Jeffrey P Carpenter, Lorenz Goette, and Aldo Rustichini, “Overconfidence and social signalling,” Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 949–983.