We revisit China's overinvestment problem by examining capital return from two perspectives. First, we re-estimate capital returns. The two existing estimation methods generate different results. After adjusting for statistical coverage and assumptions, the two methods achieve largely consistent...

This paper studies the real mutual fund performance accounting for the presences of lucky funds. We quantify the impact of luck with an innovative measure built on False Discovery Rate (FDR). These FDR measures compute the number and the proportion of fund with truly positive and negative...

Making use of the excessively speculative Chinese stock market, we test the effect of speculative trading on stock returns. We find a significantly negative relationship between abnormal turnover and future returns. In contrast, past average turnover does not predict returns. The effect of...