In this paper we examine the relationship between intraday return volatility and volume of trading for Japanese yen futures, euro FX futures, and E-mini S&P 500 futures traded on a 24-hour GLOBEX trading system in six time zones. The results support the mixture-of-distribution hypothesis (MDH),...

This paper investigates two related questions. First, I examine whether a string of relatively high (low) stock return performance that is measured over short periods ranging from the past two to four months triggers a market overreaction that gradually reverts to fundamentals. Second, I assess...

This paper examines the day-of-the-week effect for the forward premium puzzle. The paper finds that Thursday consistently appears to be a special day on which the deviation from the unbiasedness hypothesis is much less compared to other weekdays across currencies. In addition to Thursday, Monday...

This paper examines the existence and prevalence of investor herding behaviour in a segmented market setting, the Chinese A and B stock markets. It is the first study to detail the difference in herding behaviour across A and B markets. The results indicate that investors exhibit different...

We suggest that the limited access to the public debt market is a reason for the violations of pecking order behavior documented in literature. We show that as information asymmetry increases, two effects take place. On the one hand, firms do desire to increase the debt issuance. On the other...

Using small-sized buyer-initiated trades as the proxy for retail demand, we study how retail sentiment affects the returns of IPOs completed on the U.S. markets between 1994 and 2004. While we find that retail sentiment is positively related with the return volatility of IPOs on the first...

It has been proven by Ljungqvist and Wilhelm (2002) that constraints on underwriters' allocation discretion reduce price revisions. The dual-tranche bookbuilding in Taiwan and Hong Kong imposes more regulations limiting underwriters than U.S. bookbuilding does, but price revisions of Taiwan and...

This paper analyzes the dual long memory properties of four major foreign exchange markets of the world oil exporter Saudi Arabia, using the ARFIMA–FIGARCH model under several global events. It discerns the impacts of both scheduled and unscheduled news announcements and structural changes on...

We analyze a dynamic framework where an informed agent overestimates or underestimates the precision of his noisy private signal. We investigate the effect of the insider's belief on equilibrium results such as the price informativeness, the liquidity cost, the trading strategy and the expected...

This paper examines the impact of increased transparency on market quality for stocks listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in the pre- and post-period of enhanced transparency starting from January 1, 2003. The Taiwan Stock Exchange discloses unexecuted orders of the five best bid and ask prices...