This paper investigates the transaction costs of the domestic and foreign shares in the Chinese market after the 2001 reform. We find that the higher transaction costs of foreign shares (vs. domestic shares) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange are attributable to their less active trading activities,...

We evaluate the efficacy of price discovery in the round-the-clock U.S. Treasury market. Using a comprehensive intraday database, we explore informational role of trades over the 24-hour day. We find that information asymmetry is generally highest in the preopen period and lowest in the...

Using a sample of 279 upgrades and 310 downgrades from 1996 to 2004, we find that bond rating changes affect the information asymmetry of stock trading and other measures of information risk. Specifically, when a firm's bond rating is upgraded, its stock information asymmetry and its analysts'...

We comprehensively study various measures of stock trading liquidity around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) and SEO underpricing using a sample of 3,811 SEOs, made from 1997 to 2012, and a matched non-SEO sample. We find that all liquidity measures of SEO firms improve significantly after SEO...