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Learning to Be Overconfident

Learning to Be Overconfident We develop a multiperiod market model describing both the process by which traders learn about their ability and how a bias in this learning can create overconfident traders. A trader in our model initially does not know his own ability. He infers this ability from his successes and failures. In assessing his ability the trader takes too much credit for his successes. This leads him to become overconfident. A trader’s expected level of overconfidence increases in the early stages of his career. Then, with more experience, he comes to better recognize his own ability. The patterns in trading volume, expected profits, price volatility, and expected prices resulting from this endogenous overconfidence are analyzed. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Rev. Financ. Stud. 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0893-9454
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10.1093/rfs/14.1.1
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Abstract

We develop a multiperiod market model describing both the process by which traders learn about their ability and how a bias in this learning can create overconfident traders. A trader in our model initially does not know his own ability. He infers this ability from his successes and failures. In assessing his ability the trader takes too much credit for his successes. This leads him to become overconfident. A trader’s expected level of overconfidence increases in the early stages of his career. Then, with more experience, he comes to better recognize his own ability. The patterns in trading volume, expected profits, price volatility, and expected prices resulting from this endogenous overconfidence are analyzed. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Rev. Financ. Stud. (2001) 14 (1): 1-27. doi: 10.1093/rfs/14.1.1 » Abstract Free Full Text (HTML) Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Gervais, S. Articles by Odean, T. Search for related content Related Content D83 - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief G10 - General Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue December 2015 28 (12) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more Journals Career Network Published on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies The Review of Financial Studies Impact factor: 3.174 5-Yr impact factor: 6.192 Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self-archiving policy Editors’ Joint Policy Statement Regarding “Coercive Citations” Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements var taxonomies = ("SOC01040"); Most Most Read Digesting Anomalies: An Investment Approach The Sovereign Wealth Fund Discount: Evidence from Public Equity Investments Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World » View all Most Read articles Most Cited Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches The Dividend-Price Ratio and Expectations of Future Dividends and Discount Factors A Theory of Intraday Patterns: Volume and Price Variability A Closed-Form Solution for Options with Stochastic Volatility with Applications to Bond and Currency Options Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity » View all Most Cited articles Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. 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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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