This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...

This paper examines the problem of information asymmetry between foreign, local, institutional and individual investors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) for the period 2004-2011. Using monthly returns for individual companies listed on BVB, stock market indices during the seven years...

Since the qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) entered into China's A-share market officially in 2003, they have made quite abundant profit. Do QFII profit through long-term investment, or seize high quota profit through speculation behavior? This article collects the data of the top...

Liberalization of economic policies in 1992 allowed foreign institutional investors investing in Indian capital markets. Though FII permitted to invest Indian stock markets in 1992, they actually started investing in India from 1997 and factual growth of FII investment came after 2002. Since...

Consistent with theoretical predictions, we show that investors incorporate expected joint liquidation costs in their portfolio decisions. Using detailed security-level holdings of U.S. Money Market Mutual Funds (MMFs), we construct a new measure of portfolio similarity among investors and show...

Using data from Chinese listed firms, this paper examines the investment behavior of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFIIs). QFIIs have a preference for large well known firms with some element of state ownership, lower liability levels and greater turnover capacity. Furthermore, the...

Using data from Chinese listed firms, this paper examines the investment behavior of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFIIs). QFIIs have a preference for large well known firms with some element of state ownership, lower liability levels and greater turnover capacity. Furthermore, the...

Excess return, cumulative abnormal return, market to book ratios and liquidity risk are applied as proxies for evaluating the chief executive officer’s (CEO) market timing. The result indicates that managers have total succeeded in timing the market for SEO events. Firms implement seasonal...

Using a large sample of firms listed on the Korea Stock Exchange over 1998-2007, this study investigates whether and how trading by foreign and domestic institutional investors improves the extent to which firm-specific information is incorporated into stock prices, captured by stock price...