We investigate the gains and losses from equity trades of individual investors, various institutional investors, and foreign investors in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We develop a trade-weighted performance measure and examine the impact of trading intervals, price spreads, and market timing on...

Japanese open-end mutual funds are churned almost six times as much as mutual funds in the United States. We find that funds with high inflows could underperform those funds with no inflows by more than 7% per annum during periods of high fund flow activities. Although Cai, Chan, and Yamada...

Unlike broad-based equity ownership by employees, ownership of company debt by rank-and-file employees has not received much attention. We argue that company debt held by employees in the form of in-company deposits can monitor risk-taking and facilitate risk discovery. Employee deposits have...

This paper investigates the performance sensitivity of geographically diversified and non-diversified banks to local housing prices in the United States. We find that despite enduring the limitation of risk diversification, local banks experience a lower performance sensitivity to housing prices...

We find that increases in lending by Japanese Government Owned Bank (GOB) during the crisis in early 1990's had a strong incremental impact on firm level investment, especially for credit constrained firms. Firms have better future accounting performance when their investment is associated with...

This study examines the government's incentives to control partially privatized SOEs in share issue privatization in China. In addition to controlling firms in strategic industries, in certain geographical areas, and that have related party transactions, our result shows that government selects...

This paper investigates the incentive structure that encourages the appointment of retired bureaucrats in the boardrooms of the Japanese private corporations. For the sample of 4590 firm-years from 25 industries we find that such appointments are more likely to occur (i) if private corporations...

This paper examines investment spending of Japanese firms around the 'asset price bubble' in the late-1980s and makes three contributions to our understanding of how stock valuations affect investment. First, corporate investment responds significantly to nonfundamental components of stock...

In this study, we examine the impact of a market-wide mandatory disclosure policy on short selling on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We find that average short selling slightly declined while investors' shorting strategies changed significantly in response to the disclosure. Previously highly shorted...

Using data on trading across the entire Tokyo Stock Exchange, we examine the trade interactions of various investor types. Since buy trades must be cleared by the sell trades of other investors, we relate the trade interactions of various investor groups to the relative trading cost and timing...