Executive Overconfidence and Securities Class Actions


Executive Overconfidence and Securities Class Actions is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis''. The main subjects of the publication include empirical evidence, accounting, financial statement, business, class action, class, bankruptcy, corporate governance, and overconfidence effect. The authors hypothesize that overconfident managers are more likely to engage in reckless or intentional actions/disclosures that give rise to securities class actions (SCAs).