The behavior of institutional investors often deviates from established personal or social norms, which may reflect either an informational advantage or psychological bias. In this paper, we investigate the incentives of Chinese mutual funds holding lottery-type stocks, which are characterized...

We study how institutional investors utilize potentially biased information by analyzing the effect of IPO underwriters' earnings forecasts on investors' bidding behaviors in Chinese IPO auctions. Despite the presence of upward biases in underwriters' earnings forecasts, we nd that investors'...

We examine the process of stock prices adjusting to information conveyed by the trading process. Using the price impact of a trade to measure its information content, our analysis shows that the weekly price impact of market transactions has significant cross-sectional predictive power for...

We investigate a unique dataset of Chinese IPOs from 2009 to 2012. First, we find that institutional investors who participate in multiple IPOs on a single day suffer from limited attention and submit less accurate bids. Second, we form several proxies for investor attention capacity and show...