This is a short essay on the enhancement of scrip-wise price bands in Pakistan Stock Exchange from 5% to 7.5%. The author discussed the advantages and disadvantages of broadening the price limits from both regulatory and practitioners' perspective

This research paper has two objectives. First, whether the Weekend Effect anomaly documented in the literature exists in the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Second, whether the existence of the Weekend Effect can be attributed to the role of short-sellers. Using daily data for the period from...

We examine the impact of China's 2010 margin trading and short selling pilot programme on stock returns and trading volume. The market reacts negatively to both the programme announcement and implementation, with significantly lower returns and trading volumes in the pilot stocks. The negative...

This study examines the valuation, liquidity, volatility, and efficiency before and after the integration of Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE) and Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) with Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) to form the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The firm level daily data is analyzed to...

We investigate the impact of short selling and margin trading on measures of price efficiency, characteristics of stock returns distributions, and price clustering in the Chinese equity market. Short selling and margin trading was permitted on selected stocks from March 31, 2010 and was...