We find evidence that is consistent with the hypothesis that daily mutual fund flows may be instruments for investor sentiment about the stock market. We use this finding to construct a new index of investor sentiment, and validate this index using data from both the United States and Japan. In...

This paper proposes a dynamic multi-security model in which liquidity reflects stochastic variation, persistence, and commonality of underlying information variance. Illiquidity, price-change variance, and trading volume all increase in the size of information. Using high frequency data, I...