This study is designated to investigate the impact on market quality stemming from the reduction in transaction tax during the early stages of the development of Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX). Alongside an examination of the various impacts on market liquidity, volatility and government tax...

We set out in the present study to examine the market value of comprehensive disclosure of information relating to the compensation paid to directors and executives. Under the theory of self selection, firms with higher levels of board independence will tend to provide comprehensive disclosure...

This paper empirically investigates board meeting attendance and its effects on profit performance of Taiwanese listed corporations. High meeting attendance by directors themselves can enhance a firm's profitability but higher attendance by their representatives has an adverse effect....

We investigate the return and volatility spillovers between a Fintech ETF and the ETFs of the traditional financial industry with an empirical network model. We find that the traditional financial ETFs are still the main givers, and the Fintech ETF is the net receiver. The Fintech ETF does not...

This study examines the order aggressiveness and trading patience of foreign institutional traders, futures proprietary firm traders, individual day and non-day traders in the Taiwan index futures market. We consider order choice given a completely transparent limit order book. Our empirical...

This paper investigates the market microstructure of the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. The two major Chinese stock markets are pure order-driven trading mechanisms without market makers, and we analyze empirically both limit order books. We begin our empirical modeling using the vector...

This study investigates equity liquidity variation with a funding constraint across 38 countries and examines whether the effectiveness of a country’s legal institutions is systematically related to cross-country differences in fragile equity liquidity. Our results show that firms from...

This study examines the dynamic liquidity provision process by institutional and individual traders in the Taiwan index futures market, which is a pure limit order market. The empirical analysis obtains several interesting empirical results. We find that trader type affects liquidity provision...

The primary focus of this study will be an analysis of the causal links, and an assessment of the causal positioning of the significant variables involved in the interactions, between prices and exchange rates. Do exchange rate movements lead to associated price changes or do price changes lead...

This paper uses GARCH (1,1)-M modelling to examine the relationships between the systematic risk and the stock return in the banking industry in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China from 1995 through 2003. The banking industry comprises the large banks and the small-medium size banks. A comparison of...