We provide a closer look at the trading dynamics which may give rise to the positive relationship between market trading volume and its lagged returns. Chinese market turnover increases sharply with past day returns. A comprehensive dataset which facilitates the tracing of trading activities...

We examine whether or not professional traders recognize transaction costs when making trade decisions. In both single and multi-period settings, professional traders are far more reluctant to realize a gross loss rather than an actual loss (net of transaction costs). The tendency to ignore...

Prior research indicates that both execution speed and cost are important to traders, but that these two dimensions of execution quality are negatively related across U.S. equity markets. In our paper, we examine how U.S. equity traders, who are (un)informed about future price changes, trade-off...

We examine the execution quality of electronic stock traders who are geographically dispersed throughout the U.S. Traders who are located further away from market central computers in the New York City area experience slower order execution and higher trading costs. The negative relation between...

Building on the short-term nature of interim CEO contracts, this paper examines the effect of interim CEO appointment on corporate long-term investment measured by a firm's R&D spending. We find robust evidence that the corporate R&D investment level is significantly lower during the interim CEO...

This paper investigates how risks spread across sectors of the stock market in China. Using graph theory and a recently developed time series technique, we are able to identify the most important sector in the market and the patterns of risk spillovers across sectors over time. Unlike the...