Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine market reactions to private equity placements and intra-industry information spillover effects in the Taiwan Stock Exchange.Design/methodology/approach – The authors first use the market model to compute the abnormal announcement returns. To...

This paper examines the impact of insider trading on the completed and canceled private equity offerings. We find that insider trading has no impact on firms' decisions to complete or cancel the offerings, but it has a positive impact on the long-run stock performance of the issuing firms. Firms...

Long-short portfolios based on market anomalies are subject to ubiquitous short-sale constraints. Few studies directly quantify the impact of shorting on long-short strategies, largely due to the complexity of the shorting practice. We examine the Chinese market, in which the scope of the...

This study examines intraday patterns of short sales, margin purchases, adverse selection, and bid-ask spreads in the order-drivenmarket of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). We find that both short sales and margin purchases exhibit a U-shaped intraday pattern in the TWSE. We further show that...