This paper employs a unique data set to investigate the total price, liquidity and information effects of large institutional trades versus individual trades on three futures contracts traded on the Taiwan Futures Exchange. Several interesting results are obtained. We find that, for the entire...

Price limits supposedly provide a cool-off period that allows investors to reassess the market conditions. They represent an implementation risk, a special form of arbitrage risk, that impedes arbitrageurs from engaging in arbitrage activities to correct for potential mispricing. We conjecture...