Chapter 1: Economics and the Equity Market: A Microeconomics Course Application -- Chapter 2: Liquidity, Trading, and Price Determination in Equity Markets: A Finance Course Application -- Chapter 3: Liquidity and the Impact of Information Shocks: A Macroeconomics Course Application -- Chapter...

Investment decision making is a complicated process of choosing a best available option from a number of alternative options. It is an activity that is fulfilled after a keen evaluation of all the other alternatives. The current study investigates the psychological and social factors, impact the...

Examining stock price crash risk in emerging economies is important since emerging equity markets are characterized by excessive volatility and weak corporate governance. This paper investigates the relationship between foreign ownership and crash risk using a data sample of firms listed on the...

This paper investigates the impact of Twitter attention, measured by abnormal number of tweets on stock trading activities. We find that Twitter attention has predictive power for future stock volatility and trading volume. A heightened number of tweets is followed by high volatility and trading...

This paper documents a negative relationship between options trading volume and stock returns. The relationship is remarkably robust and cannot be explained by existing asset-pricing theorems. We find that strategies that require buying stocks with low options trading volume in the past and...

Using an experiment to rule out reverse causality, we examine whether a small investment in a company's stock leads investors to purchase more of the company's products and adopt other views and preferences that benefit the company. We preregister our research methods, hypotheses, and...

Little is known about the performance of the US stock market before 1802, and evidence for the years following 1802 through the 1830s remains scanty. This paper describes a new database on total returns in the US stock market for the first fifty years of its existence, constructed in large part...

We show that Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds persistently exhibit a preference for growth stocks over value stocks, despite the fact that value stocks outperform growth stocks on average. Moreover, funds with a growth tilt do not under-perform their value-oriented peer funds. To...