This paper studies whether individual investors have information advantage before earnings announcements on an emerging market using a unique data set of TWSE. Consistent with existing research on American market, it is surprising that pre-event individual investor trading is also positively...

Macro announcements change the equilibrium riskfree rate. We find that treasury prices reflect part of the impact instantaneously, but intermediaries rely on their customer order flow in the 15 minutes after the announcement to discover the full impact. We show that this customer flow...