By extending Kumar, Ruenzi and Ungeheuer (2018), we examine whether the attention-induced overpricing spills over from the stock market to the options market. While they find an increasing buying pressure from retail investors when the stock achieves an attention-grabbing status in the form of a...

How do country-level societal norms affect financial investments? We provide evidence that mutual funds managed in high social capital countries are inclined to consider environmental, social, and governance filters in their portfolios, especially when acquiring new stocks and investing abroad....