In this paper, we investigate the determinants of daily short selling activity for retail and foreign institutions and their impacts on stock returns, volatility and liquidity in the Taiwan stock markets. By using two metrics to measure the short selling activity for two investor types, we find...

This study investigates the volatility forecasting abilities of return-based and range-based estimators for two stock indices and two individual stocks in the U.S. stock market. The forecasting performances are evaluated by two robust statistical loss functions, and further by financial...