This paper examines the effectiveness, cause and impact of price limits by comparing cross-listed Chinese stocks in China (A shares), Hong Kong (H shares) and New York (N shares). Price limit is found to have some effectiveness in preventing price continuation, but is ineffective in that the...

The aim of the paper is to compare reactions of two stock markets, the German and the French, to releases of macroeconomic fundamentals emanating from Germany and the U.S. We examine the reaction of intraday returns and volatility of the CAC40 and the DAX indices to macroeconomic surprises. We...