This working paper was written by Kalok Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School), F.Y. Eric Lam (Independent Researcher)*, Giorgio Valente (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research) and Siyuan Wu (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School).Trading venues have...

From the 1994 bailout policies to the 2015 Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, the policy impact on the Chinese stock market has changed over time. By May 2015, global investors can directly invest in a more legalized and normalized Chinese stock market, whereas they are still concerned about the...

We study how the information and trading environments of Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies (H-share firms) change once the companies return to the China A-share markets for listing. We examine the stock price synchronicity, liquidity commonality, and stock liquidity after dual-listing and...

We examine the effects of the short selling ban, imposed by Australian regulators in the wake of the global financial crisis, on trading of financial stocks. Unlike other developed markets, where regulators imposed short-selling restrictions for brief periods of time at the height of the...

The paper examines empirically the impact of price limits and trading halts on stock market volatility. Circuit breakers are regulatory instruments aiming to reduce severe price volatility and provide markets with a cooling off period. However, the effectiveness of circuit breakers on the...

Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of size and cross-border investment activity, the region's markets are reputed to be more “idiosyncratic” and less reliant on economic and corporate fundamentals in their...

We identify the causal effects of short-selling bans on stock prices using regression discontinuity (RD). We exploit three threshold-based rules that determine a stock's short-selling eligibility on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Short-selling bans affect short-selling volume at all thresholds....

Upon the announcement of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, connected stocks in the Shanghai Stock Exchange experience significant value appreciation of 1.8% over a seven-day announcement window and significant increases in turnover and volatility compared with unconnected stocks with...

China has been intensively launching opening-up policies since November 2014. Among these policies, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect offers international investors an approach to investing directly in Mainland China stock markets. At the same time, Mainland China capital can gain access to...

There has been extensive literature on effects of short-sale constraints. A most widely study is Miller (1997) who argues that given the short-sale constraints, investors with bearish information cannot trade in the market unless they already hold the stocks. As a consequence, stock prices...