Financial Contracting with Optimistic Entrepreneurs: Theory and EvidenceAugustin Landier, David Thesmar2003-01-01preprintSSRN Electronic Journal148 citationsgreenNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Corporate Finance and GovernancePrivate Equity and Venture CapitalWorking Capital and Financial PerformanceAbstractNo abstract was published for this record.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 148 citations exist upstream.References2000The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research1973Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability1973On the psychology of prediction.2001Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment1980Unrealistic optimism about future life events.1992Insiders and Outsiders: The Choice between Informed and Arm's-Length Debt1986The Hubris Hypothesis of Corporate Takeovers1997Differences between entrepreneurs and managers in large organizations: Biases and heuristics in strategic decision-makingCited by2008Who Are The Microenterprise Owners? Evidence From Sri Lanka On Tokman V. De Soto2010Corporate venture capital and the returns to acquiring portfolio companies☆2007Behavioral Corporate Finance**The authors are grateful to Heitor Almeida, Nick Barberis, Zahi Ben-David, Espen Eckbo, Xavier Gabaix, Dirk Hackbarth, Dirk Jenter, Augustin Landier, Alexander Ljungqvist, Ulrike Malmendier, Jay Ritter, David Robinson, Hersh Shefrin, Andrei Shleifer, Meir Statman, Theo Vermaelen, Ivo Welch, and Jeffrey Zweibel for helpful comments. Baker and Ruback gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Division of Research of the Harvard Business School.2005Liquidity Risk and Venture Capital Finance2008Is Ignorance Bliss? Consumer Accuracy in Judgments about Credit Ratings2010Lean and Hungry or Fat and Content? Entrepreneurs' Wealth and Start-Up Performance2007Overconfidence, Managerial Optimism and the Determinants of Capital Structure2006Consumer Optimism and Price Discrimination