EGO UTILITY, OVERCONFIDENCE, AND TASK CHOICE

By B. Kőszegi. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, General Decision Sciences

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Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment (2014, background): “…low rank with high effort could not.17 The “signal” function σ(ei) is a reduced form representation of “choosing beliefs” in the spirit of Yariv (2002), Köszegi (2006), Oster et al. (2013) and Brunnermeier and Parker (2005).18 The third term captures the utility deriving from award A, which in…”
The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information (2015, unknown): “Recent work by economists has addressed some of these motives (e.g., Caplin and Leahy, 2001; Benabou and Tirole, 2002; Brunnermeier and Parker, 2005; Köszegi, 2006; Benabou, 2013), but the framework proposed here is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to integrate a wide range of these motives ”
Innovation in PhD completion: the hardy shall succeed (and be happy!) (2008, background): “These include: overcommitting (Koszegi, 2000), busyness (Silvera, 2000), perfectionism (Greenberg, 1985), procrastination (Ellis & Knaus, 1977; Martin et al., 2003; Onwuegbuzie, 1999; Solomon & Rothblum, 1984), disorganisation (Norem, 2001), not putting in effort (Bailis, 2001; Urdan & Midgley,…”
Rankings and Risk-Taking in the Finance Industry (2018, unknown): “…(2015)) and thus captures relative performance preferences.1 These nonmonetary, relative performance preferences can be driven by the desire for a positive self-image (Bénabou and Tirole (2006), Köszegi (2006)), or by concerns about public status (Frank (1985), Moldovanu, Sela, and Shi (2007)).”
The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures (2012, background): “It probably originates in different priors inherited from parents, self-selection into peer groups and institutions with reinforcing belief characteristics and boundedly rational belief formation, such as selected perception, non-Bayesian updating and ego utility (Köszegi, 2006).”
Personality Psychology and Economics (2011, unknown): “105 Johnson, Bouchard, Krueger et al. [2004]; Jensen [1998]; Lubinski [2004]; Spearman [1904; [1927].”
True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence (2011, unknown): “In economics— where the rationality assumption was long prevalent—the emphasis was a different one: in recent years, various approaches were pursued to reconcile overconfidence with rational behavior (Bénabou and Tirole, 2002; Brocas and Carrillo, 2002; Compte and Postlewaite, 2004; Healy and Moore,”
Self-confidence and strategic behavior (2017, unknown): “Overconfident statements are used in environments that seem familiar, and we present evidence that suggests that this can occur on an unconscious level.”
The Dark Side of Competition for Status (2014, background): “Status seeking can be also related to self-image (Benabou and Tirole, 2006; Koszegi, 2006), public recognition (Frank, 1985; Moldovanu et al, 2007, Rustichini, 2008) or the joy of outperforming others (Chowdhury and Sheremeta, 2010; Dohmen et al. 2011).4 Some recent research in neuroeconomics and…”
Learning Self-Control (2011, background): “…emanate from a number of different sources, if a positive belief about one’s attributes has some intrinsic value (Brunnermeier and Parker, 2005; Kőszegi, 2006; Dal Bo and Tervio, 2008) or induces motivation (Benabou and Tirole, 2002; Compte and Postlewaite, 2004). exponential discount factor…”
A Model of Positive Self-Image in Subjective Assessments (2005, unknown): “These papers and the work of Köszegi [28]”
Honestly, why are you driving a BMW? (2006, background): “We also asked the same questions to a sample of car dealers to obtain more including Loewenstein (1999), Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2002), Brekke and Howarth (2000), Köszegi (2001), Benabou and Tirole (2002, 2003), and Johansson-Stenman and Svedsäter (2003).”
Formation and persistence of oppositional identities (2011, background): “People have a desire to feel good about oneself, or hold onto a particular view of oneself (Bénabou and Tirole, 2006; Koszegi, 2006).”
Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions (2008, unknown): “If participants care about holding positive beliefs about themselves, these factors may contribute to women shying away from feedback, and as such from situations and tasks that provide such feedback (for a theoretic exploration see Köszegi (2006)).”
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others’ Altruism (2015, unknown): “The literature in psychology which has studied communication has showed how motivated reasoning is constrained by the extent to which reasonable justifications can be invoked (see, for example, Kunda, 1991), while work on elastic justification by Hsee (1996) showed that unjustifiable factors influen”