We study the relation between order imbalance and past returns and firm characteristics and test a number of hypothesis including the disposition effect, momentum and contrarian trading, taxloss selling and flight-to-quality hypothesis. These hypotheses make predictions about investors’ buy or...

This paper documents a strong relationship between short-run reversals and stock illiquidity, even after controlling for trading volume. The largest reversals and the potential contrarian trading strategy profits occur in high turnover, low liquidity stocks, as the price pressures caused by...

This article proposes a trading-based explanation for the asymmetric effect in daily volatility of individual stock returns. Previous studies propose two major hypotheses for this phenomenon: leverage effect and time-varying expected returns. However, leverage has no impact on asymmetric...

A new specification of the supply function of commercial bank credit is employed to examine the degree of endogeneity of broad money, and its response to certain structural variables in the Indian context. The specification allows us to avoid the identification problems that occur in a single...

In our intertemporal optimizing model the equilibrium real exchange rate is determined by a sustainable balancing of the current and capital accounts of the balance of payments. Under perfect global capital mobility and managed exchange rate, a rise in expected depreciation of the exchange rate...