Employing comprehensive limit-order data which identify investor types, this paper examines the clustering pattern of limit-order prices. First, limit orders, particularly those submitted by individual investors (IIs), tend to cluster at integer and even prices. Second, nonmarketable limit-order...

In this paper, we propose a model-selection approach to testing the expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates. Our method is based on the posterior information criterion (PIC) developed and analyzed by Phillips and Ploberger (1994, 1996) and extended to provide order estimation...

This paper shows that the firm size (SZ) and the book-to-market ratio (BM) cannot fully explain stock returns on prior-return-based portfolios in Japan. The overreaction effect after controlling for SZ and BM effects is significant and plays an important role in explaining the zero-investment...

The usefulness of technical analyses has never reached a consensus. Unlike most literature studying stock price behaviors surrounding the presence of technical trading signals, this paper examines the heterogeneity in order submission behaviors of investors in the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Our...

In this paper, we propose a model-selection approach to testing the expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates. Our method is based on the posterior information criterion (PIC) developed and analyzed by Phillips and Ploberger (1994, 1996) and extended to provide order estimation...

Chiao and Lin (2004) argue that the strategies following the investment pace of security investment trust companies (SITCs) are more profitable than the market and those following foreign investors (FIs) and security dealers (SDs) in the Taiwan stock market. We reexamine their results under...

This paper is motivated by the hypothesis by Hall (1992) who claims that firms prefer to use debt to finance physical investment but not R&D, due to the risky nature of R&D. Employing a dynamic simultaneous approach and R&D Master File, the relationship between debt, R&D and physical investment...