This paper examines liquidity in the China stock market around the introduction of the CSI 300 Index Futures contract. Two competing hypotheses are tested. Liquidity of constituents stocks in the underlying index may worsen as passive and uninformed investors migrate to the futures market. On...

This study investigates whether broker anonymity impairs the ability of the market to detect informed trading in the lead up to takeover announcements. Our research represents the first study in this area to analyse the effects of broker anonymity in the context of significant information...

This paper examines the impact of naked short selling on equity markets where it is restricted to securities on an approved list. Consistent with Miller's (1977) intuition, stocks with the highest dispersion of opinions and short sale constraints are the only stocks to exhibit significant and...

This study investigates the impact of dark equity trading regulatory restrictions on the options market liquidity in Canada. In late 2012, the Canadian market regulator introduced a new dark trading regulation, referred to as the “Minimum Price Improvement” (“MPI”). It requires dark...

This paper examines price behavior surrounding institutional trades on Samp;P 500 Index Futures on the CME over the period January 1994 to June 2004. Using CTR data which unambiguously classifies trades as either buyer- or seller-initiated, we find that over the entire sample period,...

This paper analyses the price behaviour surrounding block transactions on the Australian Stock Exchange. Previous research documents a price reversal following block sales and a price continuation following block purchases - an 'asymmetry' in the price reaction to block sales and block...

This paper examines the effects of large trades executed by outside customer on the prices of futures contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. We find that, on average, large buyer-initiated trades have a larger permanent price impact (information effect) than large seller-initiated...

This study examines the impact of short-selling restrictions on futures mispricing (relative to various benchmarks) in the market for CSI 300 index futures. In mid-2015, Chinese regulators imposed a new short-selling restriction in an attempt to curb excessive stock market volatility. Results...

During the global financial crisis, short‐selling and credit default swaps (CDS) gained notoriety as indicators of financial collapse. This paper extends the literature by examining the relationship between short‐selling and CDS spreads. Results indicate that lagged short‐selling metrics...

This study examines the impact of message traffic restrictions on the relative pricing efficiency of futures market. In particular, this paper investigates the return correlation between index futures contracts and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) against the implementation of two message traffic...