We examine how financial reporting quality affects the degree of noise in stock returns using the setting of Chinese A-B twin shares, which are shares for the same firm, traded on the same exchange but with separate inventor clienteles (i.e., mainly domestic vs. foreign). We measure return noise...

A number of studies have investigated the predictability of Chinese stock returns with economic variables. Given the newly emerged dataset from the Internet, this paper investigates whether the Baidu Index can be employed to predict Chinese stock returns. The empirical results show that 1) the...