We show that estimating the demand and supply elasticity at the opening stage at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is highly sensitive to which of the reasonable measures is used. We compare the estimated elasticity of excess demand at the opening to the elasticity measured during the continuous...

Using a unique database of aggregate daily flows to equity mutual funds in Israel, we find strong support for the quot;temporary price pressure hypothesisquot; regarding mutual fund flows: Mutual fund flows create temporary price pressure that is subsequently corrected. We find that flows are...

We use the move of Israeli stocks from call auction trading to continuous trading to show that investors have a preference for stocks that trade continuously. When large stocks move from call auction to continuous trading, the small stocks that still trade by call auction experience a...

We investigate a proxy for monthly shifts between bond funds and equity funds in the USA: aggregate net exchanges of equity funds. This measure (which is negatively related to changes in VIX) is positively contemporaneously correlated with aggregate stock market excess returns: One standard...

This paper analyzes a call market that enables conditioning not only on an asset price, but also on an index (a weighted average of stock prices) that is determined simultaneously with the prices of all assets. We compare two trading systems, with and without index-conditioning, and find that in...

We develop a measure (based on the relative slopes of the demand and supply schedules) quantifying the asymmetric presence of liquidity traders in the market: a steeper slope of the demand (supply) schedule indicates a concentration of liquidity traders on the demand (supply) side. Using the...

Bond repurchases are widespread in the US and other markets but data limitations have thus far prevented market-timing analysis. We fill this gap using unique daily data from Israel and show that firms time the market in their actual open market bond repurchases. Firms repurchase their bonds...

This paper examines the performance of mutual funds in Israel between 2003 and 2008. Almost all of the funds active during all or part of this period were examined. (The following funds were not included in the sample: money market funds, tracking funds, Israeli funds of funds, foreign funds of...

We review the theories on how liquidity affects the required returns of capital assets and the empirical studies that test these theories. The theory predicts that both the level of liquidity and liquidity risk are priced, and empirical studies find the effects of liquidity on asset prices to be...

We propose an explanation for the "disappearing dividend" phenomenon: the decline in the information content of dividend announcements. This reduces the propensity of firms to pay or increase dividends, since dividends are costly.(...)