This paper uses proprietary data to evaluate the efficacy of single-stock circuit breakers on the London Stock Exchange during July and August 2011. We exploit exogenous variation in the length of the uncrossing periods that follow a trading suspension to estimate the effect of auction length on...

This study investigated the impact of Muslim Holy Days on daily stock returns of Asian financial markets for a period of 2001–2014. These markets include Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The study has tried to isolate the effect of Gregorian calendar anomalies from Muslim Holy Days...

This paper examines the weak-form efficiency of the Korean stock exchange market under the substantially relaxed daily price movement limit system which has been in operation in this market since June 2015. Within the framework of a random walk model, we have carried out a detailed empirical...

Call markets are claimed to aggregate information and facilitate price discovery where continuous markets may fail. Its advantage, however, comes at the cost of immediacy. The impact of the introduction of call auction has not been found uniformly beneficial, possibly due to poor design or due...

Using a recent stock market liberalization reform policy in China-the Stock Connect-as a quasi-natural experiment, this study examines the effect of stock market liberalization on market efficiency. Employing a dataset of 17,086 Chinese listed firms covering 2009 to 2018, we find that stock...

We study the effects that the ban on short sales of shares in financial firms introduced in late 2008 and removed early 2009 had on the microstructure and the quality of UK equity markets. We show that the ban did nothing to affect order flows: financial stocks were being more aggressively sold...

We examine the effects of the short selling ban, imposed by Australian regulators in the wake of the global financial crisis, on trading of financial stocks. Unlike other developed markets, where regulators imposed short-selling restrictions for brief periods of time at the height of the...

In this paper we examine the effects of the short selling ban on trading of financial stocks imposed by Australian regulators in the wake of the global financial crisis. Unlike other developed markets where regulators imposed short-selling restrictions mostly for brief periods of time at the...

11.08.2011 tarihli Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu duyurusunda, İstanbul Menkul Kıymetler Borsası'nda Ağustos 2011 döneminde yaşanan dalgalanmalar ve kayıplar gerekçe gösterilerek açığa satışlarda başlangıç teminatı oranının %50'den %70'e çıkarıldığı ifade edilmiştir. Söz...

On October 26, 2008, Porsche announced a largely unexpected domination plan for Volkswagen. The resulting short squeeze in Volkswagen's stock briefly made it the most valuable listed company in the world. We argue that this was a manipulation designed to save Porsche from insolvency and the...