This paper examines liquidity in the China stock market around the introduction of the CSI 300 Index Futures contract. Two competing hypotheses are tested. Liquidity of constituents stocks in the underlying index may worsen as passive and uninformed investors migrate to the futures market. On...

This study investigates whether broker anonymity impairs the ability of the market to detect informed trading in the lead up to takeover announcements. Our research represents the first study in this area to analyse the effects of broker anonymity in the context of significant information...

This study exploits a unique dataset to determine the relative contribution to price discovery of order flow originating from geographically dispersed ASX servers. It is found that transactions of traders on the Sydney, Chicago and London servers have a significant impact on price volatility....