This study examines commonality in trading activity by various types of institutional investors across futures and stock markets, and the dynamic relationship between the common factors in trading activity and the futures-cash basis. The empirical results provide evidence of commonality in...

This paper examines the impact of stock market liquidity on the hedging performance of stock index futures, and extends the conditional OLS model described by Miffre [Journal of Futures Markets 24 (2004) 945] by including stock market liquidity in the regression model. The empirical results...

This paper examines how the introduction of the extended opening session of the futures market affects stock price behavior around the market opening. On January 1, 2001, the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) extended the trading hours by opening earlier 15 minutes than the Taiwan Stock Exchange...

This paper analyzes the impact of the transfer from a call auction to continuous trading on futures price behavior. Using tick by tick data from the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX), the empirical results show that the reduction in the costs of information asymmetry and an improvement in price...