The study empirically examines the investment value of analyst recommendations on constituent stocks of the S&P/ASX 50 index. For the period from 30 June 1997 to 30October 2007, we find that stocks with favourable consensus recommendations(“strong buy” and “buy”) on average earn a higher...

This study investigates the determinants of liquidity and execution probability in an operated dark pool. We analyze a unique set of data collated from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that allows the identification trades and orders in its Centre Point dark pool. This study contributes...

We study the role of insurance companies in propagating liquidity shocks to the real economy. We use natural disasters as our instrument to identify exogenous shifts in capital market liquidity, and study whether capital market liquidity affects regional-level fiscal conditions and drives GDP...

This paper investigates the relationship between the minimum price variation and market quality variables for 3 interest rate futures contracts on the Sydney Futures Exchange. Intraday trade and quote data are obtained for the period 4 January 2000 and 1 February 2002, which includes the change...

Recent local price growth explains differences in search behavior across prospective homebuyers. Those experiencing higher growth in their postcode of residence search more broadly across locations and house characteristics, without changing attention devoted to individual sales listings....

This paper analyses the price behaviour surrounding block transactions on the Australian Stock Exchange. Previous research documents a price reversal following block sales and a price continuation following block purchases - an 'asymmetry' in the price reaction to block sales and block...

The organization structure of global banks affects how they respond to liquidity shocks and matters for international shock transmission. Liquidity shocks to global banks induces a fire sales of securities by their international branches that rely on parent banks for funding, but not by their...

We identify queue-jumping as a key mechanism that causes markets to fragment. We use the introduction (and partial removal) of the Order Protection Rule, which enforces strict inter-venue price (not time) priority, to observe its impacts on fragmentation. We document that brokers increasingly...

This study employs firm-specific announcements as a proxy for information flows and investigates the information-volatility relation using high-frequency data from the Australian Stock Exchange. Our analysis reveals a positive and significant impact of the arrival rate of the selected news...

In US securities fraud cases, the Market Model-based event study has been a required component of any calculation of damages. However, in Australia, there is no authority regarding the appropriate method for estimating damages for breaches of continuous disclosure provisions, a branch of...