This paper employs a unique data set to analyze the trading behavior of 4.74 million individual and institutional investors across Mainland China. Results show that groups of individual investors with varying trade values (as proxies for wealth levels) engage in different trading strategies....

This paper investigates the question of how much each sector contributes to systemic risk in the Chinese stock market. Based on two recently developed approaches, namely, Marginal Expected Shortfall (MES) and Component Expected Shortfall (CES), the empirical results demonstrate that weights of...

This paper investigates how risks spread across sectors of the stock market in China. Using graph theory and a recently developed time series technique, we are able to identify the most important sector in the market and the patterns of risk spillovers across sectors over time. Unlike the...

We provide a closer look at the trading dynamics which may give rise to the positive relationship between market trading volume and its lagged returns. Chinese market turnover increases sharply with past day returns. A comprehensive dataset which facilitates the tracing of trading activities...

We examine whether prior outcomes influence the order selection decisions of proprietary stock traders who trade the capital of a National Securities Dealer. Trader's decision to either take or provide liquidity is correlated with their prior trading performance. When traders experience...

We examine how institutional stock traders alter their trading behavior after a change in the tick size. Larger size orders become more difficult to execute and are less common after the conversion to decimal pricing and a one-cent minimum price increment. These orders take far longer to execute...

We examine how institutional risk control mechanisms influence proprietary stock trader behavior. When traders are forced to liquidate their inventory at a pre-designated time, they often hold onto their losing trades until the very last moment. We find that the difference between losing and...

Building on the short-term nature of interim CEO contracts, this paper examines the effect of interim CEO appointment on corporate long-term investment measured by a firm's R&D spending. We find robust evidence that the corporate R&D investment level is significantly lower during the interim CEO...

We study a unique Chinese dataset of equity analysts' on-site visits to publicly listed companies. We find that analyst silence (no release of report from visit date to the next quarterly earnings announcement) contains information that negatively impacts both stock returns and earnings...