Cross-cultural overconfidence and biased self-attribution
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We use a stock-market game and predictions of examination marks to examine differences between overconfidence and biased self-attribution (BSA) of British and Asian students. Although different overconfidence measures show little correlation, Asians are consistently more overconfident than the British. All are equally prone to BSA. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G10; G14
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