We examine the relation between minority shareholder protection laws, ownership concentration, and board independence. Minority shareholder rights is a country-level governance variable. Ownership structure and board composition represent firm-level governance variables. Prior research...

Using brokerage account data from China, we study investment decision making in an emerging market. We find that Chinese investors make poor trading decisions: the stocks they purchase underperform those they sell. We also find that Chinese investors suffer from three behavioral biases: (i) they...

We examine the breadth-return relationship and the effect of stock price manipulation on it. Using data from the Chinese stock market, we first empirically find a significantly negative breadth-return relationship. Moreover, we conduct a long-short trading strategy based on the breadth change,...