This study examines how short sales constraints affect the stock price adjustment to the release of public information in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Using a unique feature of this market that allows us to directly investigate the impact of short sales restriction, we find the following....

The paper investigates the stylized fact, addressed in several prior studies, that large-cap firms may have a lower probability of informed trading. Using 30 million intraday trades, daily trades, and firm accounting data of sample firms listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), the paper...

This paper studies large price declines of individual stocks in 22 emerging markets. Using analyst reports as a proxy for information arrivals, we find that majority of crashes in emerging markets are not accompanied by information events, and these crashes are followed by price reversals....

We study the relationship between stock price synchronicity and information disclosure of firms listed in the Chinese stock market, using hand-collected data on firms' official microblogging content in Sina Weibo, a popular microblogging service in China. We find that after controlling for the...