The Split Share Structure Reform in China offers a unique opportunity to test whether the supply of tradable shares (i.e. float) has a significant impact on the degree of speculation. After firms completed the reform, their float increased by 31% on average, while turnover and trading volume...

We construct the five factors in Fama and French (FF, 2015) and the four factors in Hou, Xue, and Zhang (HXZ, 2015) for the Chinese stock market. Our objective is to identify a parsimonious factor model that builds on these factors and provides an adequate explanation for time-series and...

We examine stock trading activities in days before Chinese listed firms made public announcement to start share-structure reform. There is significant evidence that, relative to a benchmark period, institutional investors bought more event firms' shares in the last two trading days prior to...

China is the largest emerging market and attracts a great deal of attention from investors and researchers worldwide. The Fama-French three-factor model is the outcome of decades of research on U.S. stock returns. To what extent the three factors explain the variation in Chinese stock returns is...

Using a unique and rich database of high-technology firms in China, we show that effective enforcement of intellectual property rights at the provincial level is critical in encouraging financing and investing in R&D. Better enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights positively affects...