Financial derivatives have been increasingly used by firms to hedge against financial risks. However, it is still not clear what factors at the firm level lead to firms' derivative use and whether derivative use can generate performance improvement, especially in the context of firms operating...

Using a recent stock market liberalization reform policy in China-the Stock Connect-as a quasi-natural experiment, this study examines the effect of stock market liberalization on market efficiency. Employing a dataset of 17,086 Chinese listed firms covering 2009 to 2018, we find that stock...

The paper investigates the stylized fact, addressed in several prior studies, that large-cap firms may have a lower probability of informed trading. Using 30 million intraday trades, daily trades, and firm accounting data of sample firms listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), the paper...

Employing a novel approach of integrating regime analysis with event analysis, we examine the overall valuation pattern of stocks that traverse the short-sale-ban and the no-ban regime, employing data from the Hong Kong market. Switching from the ban to the no-ban regime, stocks initially...

Individual stocks co-vary with each other in their liquidity, which induces a systematic, undiversifiable liquidity risk for investors. Despite the pervasive evidence on the commonality in individual liquidity within stock markets, few researches have looked at the source of commonality in...

Derivatives are set to hedge underlying-assets risks, but what firm-specific factors determine the use of derivatives are yet conclusively discovered. Using 308 manually collected annual reports from the listed companies and a logit regression model, this paper investigates the determinants...

This paper studies large price declines of individual stocks in 22 emerging markets. Using analyst reports as a proxy for information arrivals, we find that majority of crashes in emerging markets are not accompanied by information events, and these crashes are followed by price reversals....