Caliendo, Frank; Huang, Kevin X.D. - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 30 (2008) 4, pp. 1347-1369
Overconfidence is a widely documented phenomenon. In this paper, we study the implications of consumer overconfidence in a life-cycle consumption/saving model. Our main analytical result is a necessary and sufficient condition under which any degree of overconfidence concerning the mean return...