Overconfidence, subjective perception and pricing behavior

We study the implications of overconfidence for price setting in a monopolistic competition setup with incomplete information. Our price-setters overestimate their abilities to infer aggregate shocks from private signals. The fraction of uninformed firms is endogenous; firms can obtain information b...

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Main Authors: Benigno, P. (Author), Karantounias, A.G (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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