A number of events such as the international market crash of October 1987 and the 1997 East Asian crisis show that individual firm liquidity is affected by market-wide factors. However, research in systematic liquidity is still at an embryonic stage and given the gap in the literature, the paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test whether the 2007 identification of commonality in liquidity by Galariotis and Giouvris for the UK is robust to different methodological approaches; to find whether commonality is priced; and to identify how changes in trading regimes, hence liquidity...

Amihud amp; Mendelson (1986), Eleswarapu amp; Reinganum (1993), Brennan amp; Subrahmanyam (1996), Datar et al (1998) and Amihud (2002) have argued that predictable differences in liquidity lead to cross-sectional differences in expected returns. A natural extension of this argument is that if...

We provide original results on national and global stock market liquidity and its interaction with macro-economic variables for six of the G7 economies, namely: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and UK, building on the methodology and on the US evidence by Naes et al. (2011). Using a number...

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...

According to the tax-loss selling hypothesis investors sell bad performing stocks at tax-year-end so as to realize losses and hold on to winners so as not to realize taxable gains. An implication of this is that ceteris paribus there should be a contemporaneous increase (and possible later...

Evidence suggests that once anomalies, such as the small firm and weekend effects, are identified, they subsequently cease to exist. This paper uses UK data to examine whether momentum profits have also been subject to a disappearance in recent years. Results show that momentum weakened after...

Given the lack of evidence in the literature regarding UK short-term contrarian profits and their decomposition, this paper investigates the existence of contrarian profits for the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and decomposes them to sources due to common factors and to firm-specific news,...