<mods:mods xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" version="3.3" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>A proper test of overconfidence</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Jean-Pierre</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Benoît</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Juan</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Dubra</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Don</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Moore</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>In this paper we conduct two proper tests of overconfidence. We reject the hypothesis "the data cannot be generated by a rational model" in both experiments.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">2008-12-05</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>MPRA Paper</mods:genre></mods:mods>