Ability, Self-confidence and Search

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Ability, Self-confidence and Search

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Flam, S.D.
Risa, A.E.

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We explore optimal search for individual improvement when agents start with different confidence in own ability. The initial self-confidence may be determined by nature or socio-economic factors.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Bergen in its series Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen with number 1601.

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Date of creation: 2001
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- Sjur Didrik Flåm & Alf Erling Risa, 2003. "Ability, Self-Confidence, and Search," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 159(3), pages 439-, September.

Find related papers by JEL classification:
C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information

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Kai A. Konrad & Amedeo Spadaro, 2003. "Selection Filters, Redistributive Taxation and Overconfidence," DELTA Working Papers 2003-22, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure). [Downloadable!]
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Konrad, Kai A. & Spadaro, Amedeo, 2005. "Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence," IZA Discussion Papers 1478, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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- Kai A. Konrad & Amedeo Spadaro, 2005. "Education, redistributive taxation and confidence," PSE Working Papers 2005-03, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure). [Downloadable!]
- Konrad, Kai A. & Spadaro, Amedeo, 2006. "Education, redistributive taxation and confidence," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 90(1-2), pages 171-188, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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