The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) is an electronic order-driven market without designated market makers. By turnover rate the TSEC is the most liquid market in the world. This paper is about the liquidity providers on the TSEC. Our analysis sheds light on the design of trading mechanism of an...

Real exchange rate changes affect bonds differently from stocks. Bonds, having relatively fixed income streams, reflect only an interest rate effect, while stocks reflect a conjunction of interest rate and cash flow effects. If exchange rate changes contain information about future interest...

Individual investors that are also natural persons play an important role in the stock market as providers of liquidity, and it is their investment performance that directly influences their rate of survival in the market. As to whether the outcome of their operating performance is due to their...

This paper investigates the effect of house money on the risk-taking behavior of individual investors. When gains are more substantial, individuals tend to take greater risk. The house money effect seems to decline over time, because the propensity for risk taking following gains is diminished...

We set out in this study to analyze the expiration effects of index futures on the cash market in Taiwan, and find that both volatility and trading volume are higher on the final settlement days as compared to normal trading days. We also calculate the volume of open interest for final...

We analyze 987 ex-dividend events in Taiwan stock market between January 1992 and December 2006, and find that differential taxes really matter for the share prices and investors behaviors around the ex-dividend day. Ex-day price drop ratio increases with the investors' average preference for...

Using a unique data set of complete trade records, we find that large individual investors are successful at picking stocks. Large individual investors' correlated trades not only can move synchronous stock prices but also can positively predict future returns. More importantly, large individual...