True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence

@article{Merkle2011TrueOT,
  title={True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence},
  author={Christoph Merkle and Martin Weber},
  journal={Behavioral \& Experimental Finance},
  year={2011}
}
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