China s stock markets, with stringent short-sales constraints, dominance of inexperienced individual investors, a small asset float and heavy share turnover (500% per year despite a high transaction cost), provide a unique opportunity to study non-fundamental components in stock prices. In...

This paper studies predatory trading: trading that induces and/or exploits other investors s need to reduce their positions. We show that if one trader needs to sell, others also sell and subsequently buy back the asset. This leads to price overshooting and a reduced liquidation value for the...

This paper studies predatory trading: trading that induces and/or exploits other investors need to reduce their positions. We show that if one trader needs to sell, others also sell and subsequently buy back the asset. This leads to price overshooting and a reduced liquidation value for the...

We provide a model that links a security's market liquidity - i.e., the ease of trading it - and traders' funding liquidity - i.e., their availability of funds. Traders provide market liquidity and their ability to do so depends on their funding, that is, their capital and the margins charged by...