TY - BOOK ID - 52583746 TI - Managerial overconfidence PY - 2014 SN - 395489128X 3954896281 9783954896288 9783954891283 PB - Hamburg, Germany DB - UniCat KW - Corporations KW - Financial executives KW - Chief financial officers KW - CFOs (Executives) KW - Financial officers, Chief KW - Executives KW - Business corporations KW - C corporations KW - Corporations, Business KW - Corporations, Public KW - Limited companies KW - Publicly held corporations KW - Publicly traded corporations KW - Public limited companies KW - Stock corporations KW - Subchapter C corporations KW - Business enterprises KW - Corporate power KW - Disincorporation KW - Stocks KW - Trusts, Industrial KW - Finance KW - Econometric models. KW - Behavior. KW - Finance&delete& KW - Econometric models KW - Behavior KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52583746 AB - 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 ER -