I follow The Design of Experiments, using randomization statistical inference to test the null
hypothesis of no treatment effects in a comprehensive sample of 53 experimental papers …

This chapter reviews how worker overconfidence affects labor markets. Evidence from
psychology and economics shows that in many situations, most people tend to overestimate …

Key to the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is the establishment of successful
business models based on sound understanding of consumer behavior in adopting this new …

We investigate how the convexity of a firm's incentives interacts with worker overconfidence
to affect sorting decisions and performance. We demonstrate, experimentally, that …

The motivational value of confidence postulates that individual effort provision is increasing
in beliefs on one's own ability. This relation is supposed to also hold for overconfident …

Teamwork has become increasingly important in modern organizations and the labor
market. Yet, little is known about the role of self-confidence in teamwork. In this paper, we …

A consistent empirical literature shows that in many organizations supervisors systematically
overrate their employees' performance. Such leniency bias is at odds with the standard …

We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine how task difficulty and different types of
performance feedback–none, individual, and relative–affect individuals' selection of either a …

We study a principal‐agent framework in which the agent forms beliefs about the principal's
project based on a misspecified subjective model. She fits this model to the objective …

This paper reports findings of a laboratory experiment, which explores how reported self-
assessment regarding the own relative performance is perceived by others. In particular, I …