We examine the impact of block ownership on the firm's trading activity and secondary-market liquidity. Our empirical results show that block ownership takes potential trading activity off the table relative to a diffuse ownership structure and impairs the firm's market liquidity. These adverse...

We conduct a comprehensive study of commonality in liquidity using intraday spread and depth data from 47 stock exchanges. We find that firm-level changes in liquidity are significantly influenced by exchange-level changes across most of the world's stock exchanges. Emerging Asian exchanges have...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between investor protection and firm liquidity. We posit that less protective environments lead to wider bid-ask spreads and thinner depths because they fail to minimize information asymmetries. The Hong Kong equity market provides a...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the timing of open market share repurchases and its resultant impact on corporate liquidity. We identify the exact implementation dates for over 5,000 equity buybacks on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong between November 1991 and August 1999. A...

Events such as the 1997 East Asian financial crisis indicate that individual firm liquidity is strongly influenced by marketwide factors. Previous market microstructure research, however, focuses almost exclusively on the firm-specific attributes of liquidity. Our study follows the recent shift...

The purpose of this study is to analyze inter-temporal trading patterns attributable to informed trading, and distinguish between trading due to asymmetric information and trading due to heterogeneous prior beliefs. Although liquidity and asymmetric information motives for trading are well...

The use of electronic limit order books has been increasing rapidly in recent years. Many of the newly emerging as well as well-established exchanges have adopted electronic, order-driven systems or are in the process of initiating or broadening their order-driven trading. This study...

The purpose of this study is to extend the bid-ask spread decomposition literature into the order-driven environment. The use of electronic limit order books combined with order-driven market making has been increasing rapidly in recent years because of improvements in information technology and...

The purpose of our study is to investigate the trading behavior of informed and uninformed investors in a screen-based, order-driven environment. As more and more exchanges conduct trading through electronic limit-order books, it is increasingly important to analyze consequent trading behavior...

We examine search-based peer (SBP) groups proposed by Lee, Ma, and Wang (2015) and their relationship with commonality in liquidity. Our results confirm that SBP affiliation is a significant determinant of commonality in liquidity and, unlike market- and industry-commonality, SBP-commonality has...