Predicting stock market crashes and corrections is a focus of interest for both researchers and practitioners. Several prediction models have been developed, mostly on mature financial markets. In this paper, we investigate whether fundamental crash predictors, the price-to-earnings ratio, the...

I find evidence of valuable private information in the Chinese stock market. First, Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds outperform passive benchmarks including market, size, value, and momentum factors. Most funds appear to have skill, and much of that skill consists of stock-picking...

This paper examines the proxy variables of investor sentiment in Chinese stock market carefully, and tries to construct an investor sentiment index indirectly. We use cross correlation analysis to examine lead-lag relationship between the proxy variables and HS300 index. The results show that...