And a vision appeared unto them of a great profit: evidence of self-deception among the self-employed
By G. Arabsheibani, David de Meza, John Maloney, Bernard Pearson. 2000
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Subfields: Demography, Marketing, Safety Research
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- Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Characteristics and Earning s Differentials (2010, unknown): “Secondly, entrepreneurs are found to have a systematic tendency to be overoptimistic (e.g. Arabsheibani et al., 2000; Cooper et al., 1988).”
- Entrepreneurs' human capital and the start-up size of new technology-based firms (2004, background): “While there is evidence that individuals going into selfemployment often are overoptimistic (see Camerer and Lovallo 1999, Arabsheibani et al. 2000), they will rationally be more optimistic about the prospects of the new venture the better their specific human capital, as this latter characteristic…”
- With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship (2013, unknown): “An emerging literature on “behavioral entrepreneurship” finds that individuals tend to pursue new ventures even if the expected returns are predictably meager (Camerer and Lovallo 1999; de Meza and Southey 1996; Arabsheibani et al. 2000; Landier and Thesmar 2009).”
- Experimentation and the Returns to Entrepreneurship (2016, background): “For example, entrepreneurs may enjoy nonpecuniary benefits (Blanchflower and Oswald 1992), may have a preference for skewness (Kraus and Litzenberger 1976), or may just be overconfident (Cooper et al. 1988; Arabsheibani et al. 2000; Bernardo and Welch 2001).”
- Entrepreneurship as a non-profit-seeking activity (2009, unknown): “A study by Arabsheibani et al. (2000), in particular, compares self-employed and employed persons’ expectations of future prosperity with the actual outcomes they experience.”
- The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real? (2014, background): “Åstebro (2012) found a median difference in relative earnings of−14% between self-employed and wage workers in Korea. However, it appears that self-employed in Germany on average earn more than their counterparts in paid employment, although the median earnings is similar (Constant and Shachmurove, ”
- Overoptimism and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms (2006, background): “…even though participants estimated accurately the number of entrants and realized that the expected value of entering was negative, excess entry still occurred, consistent with overestimation by individuals on their own prospects for success (de Meza and Southey 1996, Arabsheibani et al. 2000).”
- What Makes Entrepreneurs Happy? Determinants of Satisfaction Among Founders (2012, background): “Nevertheless, it can be expected that the nature of the business affects the degree of entrepreneurial satisfaction.”