WHY ENTREPRENEUR OVERCONFIDENCE AFFECT ITS PROJECT FINANCIAL CAPABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM TUNISIA USING THE BAYESIAN NETWORK METHOD

Salima Taktak (), Mohamed Ali Azouzi and Mohamed Triki ()
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Salima Taktak: University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
Mohamed Triki: University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Business Excellence and Management, 2013, vol. 3, issue 2, 61-84

Abstract: This article discusses the effect of the entrepreneur’s profile on financing his creative project. It analyzes the impact of overconfidence on improving perceptions financing capacity of the project. To analyze this relationship we used networks as Bayesian data analysis method. Our sample is composed of 200 entrepreneurs. Our results show a high level of entrepreneur’s overconfidence positively affects the evaluation of financing capacity of the project.

Keywords: Overconfidence; Behavioral biases; Entrepreneurship; Funding decision Bayesian networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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