Overconfidence in tournaments: evidence from the field
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Tournaments; Rationality; Field experiment; A12; C93; J41;JEL classification:
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
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