This study investigates the determinants of liquidity and execution probability in an operated dark pool. We analyze a unique set of data collated from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that allows the identification trades and orders in its Centre Point dark pool. This study contributes...

This paper examines liquidity in the China stock market around the introduction of the CSI 300 Index Futures contract. Two competing hypotheses are tested. Liquidity of constituents stocks in the underlying index may worsen as passive and uninformed investors migrate to the futures market. On...

The study empirically examines the investment value of analyst recommendations on constituent stocks of the Samp;P/ASX 50 index. For the period from 30 June 1997 to 30 October 2007, we find that stocks with favourable consensus recommendations (strong buy and buy) on average earn a higher return...

We study the role of insurance companies in propagating liquidity shocks to the real economy. We use natural disasters as our instrument to identify exogenous shifts in capital market liquidity, and study whether capital market liquidity affects regional-level fiscal conditions and drives GDP...