This paper investigates the existence of contrarian profits and the sources of these profits, for the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). The empirical analysis decomposes contrarian profits to sources due to common factor reaction, overreaction to firm-specific information, and profits not related to...

We investigate when market making can be profitable in the European Carbon Futures market, by developing an order type selection rule, based solely on transaction level data. We employ a granular approach that uses an observable variable, i.e. trading intensity, to extract the liquidity and...

This paper provides original evidence on the relation between herd behavior and equity market liquidity, an issue that has been neglected when studying herd behavior towards the consensus. We use equity price data for the G5 markets, and initially we find no evidence of herding. When, however,...

The paper employs government bond portfolios from 17 countries so as to investigate the short-run reaction of investors to price shocks. The findings indicate a uniform return reversal pattern across countries, that persists irrespective of various robustness tests such as different data-sets...