Compared to US stocks, Chinese stocks earn most of the returns during the day. We extend previous findings by Qiao and Dam (2020) arguing that the absence of day trading in the Chinese stock markets explains these differences and argue that these differences reflect an illiquidity premium. We...

We study how expectations of fund flows causally affect fund performance by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the Australian pension system where an unexpected policy change temporarily allowed fund withdrawals from a pre-specified date in the future. Using fractions of young members,...

We study performance and competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs). We construct measures of latency and find that differences in relative latency account for large differences in HFTs' trading performance. HFTs that improve their latency rank due to colocation upgrades see improved...