We study how institutional investors utilize potentially biased information by analyzing the effect of IPO underwriters' earnings forecasts on investors' bidding behaviors in Chinese IPO auctions. Despite the presence of upward biases in underwriters' earnings forecasts, we nd that investors'...

Over the last decade, the volume of market-on-close orders has increased to more than 10% of the entire day's trading volume. This paper investigates this rise and documents four stylized facts: (i) passive investing leads to greater usage of market-on-close orders, consistent with passive...

We investigate a unique dataset of Chinese IPOs from 2009 to 2012. First, we find that institutional investors who participate in multiple IPOs on a single day suffer from limited attention and submit less accurate bids. Second, we form several proxies for investor attention capacity and show...