In this paper, we have examined the effects of price limits on the stock volatility in ASE. We put forward two hypotheses, the information hypothesis, which implies that price limits only slow down the process of adjustment and have no effect on stock volatility; and the overreaction hypothesis,...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the effects of different trading systems, the open outcry and the electronic systems, which differ in the speed of dissemination of order flow information, on the relation between trading activity and conditional volatility, on the probability distribution...

The paper investigates the dynamics of price changes and information flow to the market in the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece using daily data over the period 1988 to 1993. A generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) model in stock returns is shown to reflect time...

The paper investigates the dynamics of price changes and information flow to the market in the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece using daily data over the period 1988 to 1993. A generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) model in stock returns is shown to reflect time...

In this paper, we examine the effects of price limits on the stock volatility in ASE. We put forward two hypotheses, the information hypothesis, which implies that price limits only slow down the process of adjustment and have no effect on stock volatility; and the overreaction hypothesis, which...