Using data for 193 equity funds in Taiwan, we examine whether fund managers behave overconfidently. We show that the higher the fund performance, the more that trading occurs in the next period. In addition, such trading may hurt subsequent performance, although the evidence is marginal. Our...

Using a unique data set, we find that large individual investors are successful at picking stocks. Large individual investors' correlated trades can not only move synchronous stock prices but also positively predict future returns. More importantly, they tend to trade before major earnings...

Using data from 74 countries between the years of 1960 to 2008, we performed panel regressions and logit models on political settings and the economic situation to identify which factors influence deposit insurance coverage and the probability of changes in coverage. Results reveal that...

Based upon an examination of 987 ex-dividend events that took place on the Taiwan Stock Exchange between January 1992 and December 2006, we find that differential taxes are an important factor affecting share prices and the behavior of investors around the ex-dividend day. Ex-day price drop...

The existence of the weekend effect has been documented as early as 1885. This paper examines whether the serial dependence in returns around weekends and the magnitude of negative Friday returns can be used to produce superior trading returns. We find some success for this endeavor after...

This study examines the Merton (1987) 'investor recognition' hypothesis, which postulates that an increase in the total number of investors with prior knowledge of a firm will lower the expected returns of investors by reducing the 'shadow costs' arising from the lack of knowledge of a...