Previous studies show that individual investors play a dominant role in China's stock market. Their behavior of chasing-rise being stronger than killing-fall leads to asymmetry of feedback trading. Our article investigates how mutual funds react to this market force. Using China's stock and fund...

The extended trading close (ETC) provides institutional investors an opportunity to trade at the closing price after the regular trading session (RTS) and disclosing the order imbalances to other market participants. ETCs exist in the Nasdaq, the SSE STAR, the SZSE ChiNext and the TWSE. To help...

We analyse the impact of the introduction of a new technology on the National Stock Exchange in India that allowed trading of stocks without the need to transfer paper share certificates (demat trading). We document a decrease in the bid-ask spread and an increase in trading volume following its...