We show that search volume on Google not only serves as an intuitive proxy for overall firm recognition, but also captures the attention of stock market investors. Our results suggest that an increase in search queries is associated with a rise in trading activity and stock liquidity. We...

We show that the search volume on Google not only serves as an intuitive proxy for overall recognition in a firm, but also captures the attention of stock market investors. Our results suggest that an increase in search queries is associated with a rise in trading activity and stock liquidity....

We document a causal effect of social interactions on investor behavior using the number of local soccer games as a measure of social interaction intensity. Social transmission is identifiable in buy but not sell trades. The effect of Social Interaction Intensity (SII) on the sensitivity of...

We propose a model of “disposition extrapolators”—investors subject to both extrapolative beliefs and the disposition effect—to explain the sharp rise in prices and volume observed in historical financial bubbles. The model generates a novel mechanism for volume, and we test its...

It is a well-known fact that most of the asset returns tend to be skewed and heavytailed. Heavy tailed distributions such as the Student’s t distribution and Stable distribution are commonly used in finance to model asset returns that areheavy tailed. Additionally, Stable distribution allows...