This paper investigates whether there is commonality in the trading of individual investors. To test for the existence of trading commonality, we apply three different methods employed in assessments of commonality in liquidity. Using actual individual trading in the Korean stock market, we...

This study investigates an important question in the literature of whether there is a return premium for stocks with low liquidity and high liquidity risk. Using a sample of listed stocks in New Zealand from January 1996 to June 2011, we find that there is a significant illiquidity discount and...

This paper examines the impact of a set of common factors on liquidity variations in twelve Asian equity markets. The cross-market liquidity co-movements, i.e. liquidity commonality, represent an important dimension of capital market integration. I find that (1) liquidity variations in Asian...

This study investigates the impact of short-sales constraints on liquidity for individual stocks in Hong Kong, as the Hong Kong Stock Market has a special feature such that, at each point of time, only a subset of stocks are allowed to be sold short, with the list of these stocks changing over...