This study examines the relationship of CEO overconfidence with accrual-based earnings management, real activities-based earnings management, and targeting to meet or just beat analyst forecasts. Following Malmendier and Tate (2005), we measure “overconfidence” based on the CEO's tendency to...

Overconfidence has been a hot topic in judgment and decision-making research. The overconfidence effect describes, among other things, the tendency of people to believe that their judgment is more accurate than it really is. Auditing judgment and decision making research has always had much...

In a large-scale laboratory experiment, we investigate gender differences in overconfidence and risk taking. Our results show that (self-)selection and socialization can eliminate the gender difference in overconfidence, but they appear insufficient to create environments in which women are as...