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 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....

This paper proposes a novel approach to determine whether mutual funds time the market. The proposed approach builds on a heterogeneous agent model, where investors switch between cash and stocks depending on a certain switching rule. This represents a more flexible, intuitive, and parsimonious...