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 report the results of an experiment designed to study whether or not having experienced booms and crashes in naturally occurring asset markets affects subjects' trading behavior in the lab. Active investors in the Shanghai Stock Exchange were recruited to participate in either the Boom...

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...

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...

After insider trading regulations become stricter, insiders partially substitute trades in their own stocks with informed trades in peer stocks. Using a uniquely constructed dataset of trades by corporate insiders in all stocks, we find that insiders are 20% more likely to trade in peer stocks...