While investors in the west are generally skeptical about the reliability of the candlestick technical analysis, this technique is commonly used in some Asian equity markets in short-term speculative investments. This paper examines the effectiveness of five different candlestick reversal...

Recent literature shows that dynamic matching mechanisms may outperform the standard mechanisms to deliver desirable results. We highlight an under-explored design dimension, the time constraints that students face under such a dynamic mechanism. First, we theoretically explore the effect of...

Using a sample from 1980 to 2018, we find evidence consistent with banks and insurers in the U.S. diversifying financial risk through their equity holdings. They tend to offset the risk of increased leverage by lowering the leverage of the non-financial firms in which they take an equity stake....

There is often substantial time delay in uncovering accounting misstatements, which is largely ignored in prior misstatement prediction literature. In this study, we incorporate the release lag in detecting material misstatements in a novel model framework. This has profound implications for...

The 'Gulf Falcons'-the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council-have high living standards as a result of large income flows from oil. The decline of oil prices between summer 2014 and fall 2015 underscores the urgency for the Gulf Falcons to diversify away from their current heavy reliance on...

Multiple testing adjustments have become increasingly prevalent in empirical asset pricing. The purpose of these adjustments is to correct the tendency to reject the null hypothesis erroneously. The use of such adjustments, however, involves balancing the benefits of controlling false positives...

We model the relation between excess returns, fund size and industry size for active equity funds within four markets – global equities, emerging markets, Australia core and Australia small caps – and use the results to investigate the extent to which funds deviate from estimated capacity....

This paper justifies the evolution of the college admissions system in China from a mechanism design perspective. The sequential choice algorithm and the parallel choice algorithm used in the context of China's college admissions system are formulated as the well-studied Boston mechanism and the...