We investigate the impact of investor attention, proxied by Google search volume, on target abnormal returns and liquidity measures around M&A announcements. Investor attention slightly increases before and exhibits a sharp incline at the announcement date, with elevated levels of attention...

"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of cultural finance. It summarizes research results of cultural differences in financial decision making and on financial markets. Many of the results have been published in leading academic journals over the last ten years but...