This paper studies the impact of capital market openness on high frequency market quality in China. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHHKConnect) program opens China's stock market to foreign investors and offers a natural experiment to investigate this question. Using a...

We identify different roles traders play using data with trader identities for all transactions in SENSEX-index stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange from January 2005 to December 2011. Individual day traders (IDT) are identified as "noise traders", who play an important role in the market...

Using data with trader identities for all transactions in SENSEX-index stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange over seven years, we identify individual day traders (IDT) to be “noise traders”, who play an important role in market microstructure models in the literature.IDT contribute 10% to...