This study explores the effect of managerial overconfidence on the risk of a stock price crash. Results indicate that managerial overconfidence positively affects stock price crash risk. Importantly, internal controls can reduce this risk by curbing managerial overconfidence.

This paper employs weighted least squares to examine the risk-return relation by applying high-frequency data from four major stock indexes in the US market and finds some evidence in favor of a positive relation between the mean of the excess returns and expected risk. However, by using...