This study examines the roles of funding liquidity in shaping the relationship between stock price synchronicity and equity market liquidity. We find that market liquidity and stock price synchronicity exhibit a downward-sloping relationship, contradicting the relative synchronicity hypothesis....

We examine the effects of limited investor attention on stock returns by using Google search volume index to measure investor attention. We also investigate whether national culture and market development have any role in this relationship. We find that the impact of investor attention on stock...

This study examines whether sentiment indices predict individual firms’ stock returns and evaluates the performances of sentiment-based trading strategies. Both the sentiment indices constructed using the principal component analysis (PCA) and overnight stock returns positively predict stock...

This study analyzes the impact of a newly emerging type of anti-money laundering regulation that obligates cryptocurrency exchanges to report suspicious transactions to financial authorities. We build a theoretical model for the reporting decision structure of a private bank or cryptocurrency...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led global investors to draw a parallel between pandemics and climate risk, focusing their attention on climate risk. We examine COVID-19’s effect on investors’ awareness of climate risk by analyzing novel trading data for Korean listed firms that include investor...

We develop a life-cycle OLG model with heterogeneous characteristics for population share, work probability, survival rate, labor productivity, subjective discount rate, and intertemporal elasticity of substitution. We can observe the deviations in financial decisions and asset accumulation...

This study develops a life-cycle model to predict an overlapping generations economy comprising heterogeneous agents. In the proposed model, ex-ante heterogeneity involves the work probability, survival rate, subjective discount rate, and intertemporal elasticity of substitution. We observe...