We examine the breadth-return relationship and the effect of stock price manipulation on it. Using data from the Chinese stock market, we first empirically find a significantly negative breadth-return relationship. Moreover, we conduct a long-short trading strategy based on the breadth change,...

Traders differ in speed and their speed differences matter. I model strategic interactions induced when high frequency traders (HFTs) have different speeds in an extended Kyle (1985) framework. HFTs are assumed to anticipate incoming orders and trade rapidly to exploit normal-speed traders'...

Recently, a number of papers have noted the dramatic increase in the extent to which institutional investors account for the ownership of publicly-traded stock, including holding ownership stakes in multiple market rivals. This change, in turn, has raised the intriguing or disturbing possibility...

We address implementation issues related to Wald tests associated with mean-variance spanning when short positions in portfolios are prohibited. In particular, we exploit the uniqueness of the stochastic discount factor in the presence of a risk-free rate to avoid potential numerical stability...

Financial institutions may be vulnerable to predatory short selling. When the stock of a financial institution is shorted aggressively, leverage constraints imposed by short-term creditors can force the institution to liquidate long-term investments at fire sale prices. For financial...