This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between index returns, return volatility, and trading volume for eight Asian markets and the US. We find cross-border spillovers in returns to be nonexistent, spillovers in absolute returns between Asia and the US to be strong in both directions,...

The relationship between order imbalance, market returns and macroeconomic news is examined in the context of the Australian interest rate futures market. Contemporaneous order imbalance exerts a significant impact on market returns in the expected direction i.e. excess buy (sell) orders drive...

In the field of financial literature, many scholars have tried to solve the riddle of origin of momentum profits. But results are so far mixed and not ultimate. The purpose of this paper is to find the origin of short term momentum effect. For this purpose, a new set of variables has been chosen...

Prior studies on the price formation in the Bitcoin market consider the role of Bitcoin transactions at the conditional mean of the returns distribution. This study employs in contrast a non-parametric causality-in-quantiles test to analyse the causal relation between trading volume and Bitcoin...

Using daily data from 2004 to 2015, this paper attempts to examine the relationship between return, volume and volatility in the Thai stock market. The main findings are that trading volume plays a dominant role in the dynamic relationships. Specifically, trading volume causes both return and...

We investigate the role of trading volume in predicting the magnitude and persistence of the price momentum phenomenon in markets around the world. Using comprehensive data for 38,273 stocks from 37 countries, we show that past trading volume relates to both the level and persistence of momentum...

Unusually high aggregate stock trading volume in one week predicts higher excess market returns in the following week, especially when accompanied by high market volatility. This predictive relation is robust across alternative measures of aggregate trading volume. In out-of-sample forecasting...

We demonstrate the estimation biases that arise when stock returns from 12 month prior and 2 month prior are included within intermediate and recent past momentum profits. These biases lead to an overestimation of intermediate past momentum but an underestimation of recent past momentum in the...

This paper examines the problem of information asymmetry between foreign, local, institutional and individual investors on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) for the period 2004-2011. Using monthly returns for individual companies listed on BVB, stock market indices during the seven years...

This study investigates the relationship between trading volume and returns and volatility of Pakistani market for the period of July 1998 to October 2008. The Dickey-Fuller test is applied to turn the time series stationary. The ARCH and GARCH-M models are used to test the return, volatility...