We suggest that Doidge et al.'s (2004) finding of non-U.S. firms worth more when listed in the U.S. is a special case of a general quot;bonding premiumquot; phenomenon. When firm bonds to a quot;qualityquot; market by listing there, it tends to enjoy the quot;bonding premiumquot;. As to where...

Existing literature on trade news effect on asset prices generally looks at exchange rates and stock market indices. This paper focuses on individual stocks--the U.S. and Japanese quot;Big Threequot; automobile stocks. This study makes several contributions. First, it examines Japanese...

We link up the findings of Abraham and Ikenberry (1994) and Wang, Li and Erickson (1997) by showing that negative Monday returns concentrate on days 18 to 26 of a month and they can be completely explained in the statistical sense by the negative returns on the previous Friday. More importantly,...

China's B-share market, which used to be restricted to foreign investors, was partially opened up in February 2001 to Chinese local investors. We take this as a controlled experiment in cross-border trading on a small scale. We find mild but positive effects on the B-share market, with higher...