This study investigates the role of liquidity in pricing stock returns in the Hong Kong stock market. Our results show that liquidity is an important factor for pricing returns in Hong Kong after taking well-documented asset pricing factors into consideration. The results are robust to adding...

We examine the impact of blockholding on shareholders' wealth in equity offerings in China. We find that investors generally react negatively to equity-offering announcements by firms with high blockholding. A one-standard-deviation (12%) increase in blockholding leads to a 0.59% reduction in...

This paper uses linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests to study information transmission among stock markets of Greater China. In sharp contrast to the results disclosed by its linear counterpart, a nonlinear causality test provides evidence of isolated bi-directional causal relations...

This study investigates the role of higher co-moments on stock returns in two important stock markets: China and the UK. Implementing a utility function that accommodates higher moment preferences into the equilibrium asset pricing analysis, it can be deduced that the expected stock returns,...