This paper investigates whether momentum trading strategies are profitable in the Hong Kong stock market, and examines the sources of such profitability. Momentum portfolios are significantly profitable in the intermediate term in Hong Kong, but the profits become insignificant after risk...

We document a set of instruments that explain a large fraction of the time series variation in turnover between 1966 and 2003. We use these relations in latent variable tests that examine the number of predictable factors that drive conditional expected time-varying turnover. After refining the...

We examine the effects of short-sale constraints in Hong Kong where stocks can be shorted only if they are included on an official short-sale list. Using revisions to the list, we test two hypotheses — 1) that short-sale constraints lead to overvaluation and 2) that they lead to lower costs of...