This study investigates individual and institutional trading in competing firms around earnings announcements. We find individual and institutional informed trading in competing firms, which is dominant prior to earnings announcements. Magnitude of institutional (individual) net order flow...

This study investigates individual and institutional trading activities in competing firms to infer informed trading. We find evidence for individual and institutional informed trading in competing firms around earnings announcements. The evidence is stronger prior to announcements than after...

This paper investigates trade initiation activities ‘immediately' before and after earnings and takeover ‘day' announcements. We find that investors' initiate buy and sell (buy or sell) trades immediately before (after) earnings and takeover day announcements. High volatility and more...

This study investigates individual and institutional trading activities before and after earnings announcements to infer informed trading in competing firms. We find evidence for individual and institutional informed trading in competing firms before earnings announcements. Magnitude of...

This study investigates individual and institutional investors' behaviour around firm specific news announcements. We find that individual investors and institutional investors have positive and significant abnormal volume on announcement days and significantly less abnormal volume on days...

We investigate the immediate impact of firm-specific announcements on the trading volume of individual and institutional investors on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Institutional investors exhibit abnormal trading volume before and after announcements. However, individual investors...

This study investigates the impact of timing of the release of firm-specific announcements on trading volume of individual and institutional investors. We use trading data in five-minute intervals to capture the immediate impact of announcements on the trading volume. We find that individual...