Given that the efficiency of the Chinese stock markets was empirically examined in extant literature using statistical tests that are designed to uncover linear correlations of price changes, the obtained statistical inferences of efficiency/inefficiency are on very shaky grounds as highlighted...

This article examines the impact on market quality that the introduction of a closing call auction had at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Using the market model approach of Cohen et al. (1983a, b) we show that opening and closing market quality improved for those Financial Times and Stock...

This article investigates Day-of-the-Week and January Effects in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets over the period 1990 to 2006 for both the 'A' and 'B' indices. During this period, these two Chinese stock markets went through the limit period and nonlimit period and then again through a...