Skill or Luck? Biases of Rational Agents
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- 1 January 2002
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper shows why, in a world with differing priors, rational agents tend to attribute their own success more to skill and their failure more to bad luck thaKeywords
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