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 suggests a novel approach for decomposing an options order imbalance based on trading motives using put-call parity. The options order imbalance is separated into two components: one that contains arbitrage trading and one that does not. Intuitively, the proportion of the former...