An empirical evaluation of the overconfidence hypothesis

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Improving stock market prediction via heterogeneous information fusion (2017, background): “Previous research on psychological-overconfidence theory indicates that investors tend to overweight private information while ignoring public information [38].”
Who is the more overconfident trader? Individual vs. institutional investors (2011, methodology): “Following Chuang and Lee (2006), we use two risk measures: firm-specific risk and return volatility.”
Overconfidence in Psychology and Finance - An Interdisciplinary Literature Review (2008, unknown): “In addition, Chuang and Lee (2006) provide support for investors displaying a self-attribution bias (putting more weight on their forecasts that prove to be correct, and less on those that turn out wrong), for high market volatility being due to the presence of investor overconfidence, and for…”
Investors’ trading activity: A behavioural perspective and empirical results (2011, background): “Barber and Odean (2001a) and Chuang and Lee (2006) argue that overconfident investors underestimate risk and trade more in riskier securities.”