This paper studies the impact of capital market openness on high frequency market quality in China. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHHKConnect) program opens China's stock market to foreign investors and offers a natural experiment to investigate this question. Using a...

This paper examines whether foreign investor heterogeneity plays a role in stock liquidity on a sample of 27,976 firms from 39 countries. Results show that foreign direct ownership is negatively, while foreign portfolio ownership is positively, associated with various measures of stock...

We examine determinants of U.S. equity trader maker-taker decisions (e.g., execute a non-marketable limit order or marketable order). Those with a higher maker tendency are slower, larger-size traders who exhibit smaller price impact and concentrate their trading in fewer markets. When the...