Empirical analysis of financial data such as the daily, weekly or monthly prices of assets such as bonds, stocks, currencies and commodities have shown that asset prices approximately follow a martingale process, but the distribution of asset returns tend to be fat-tailed. This paper examines...

This paper investigates the influence of information asymmetry on the cross-sectional variation of volume-return relation. We find that the dynamic volume-return relation within medium-size trades has the most significant response to the degree of information asymmetry. We also show that the...

We study the volume-volatility relation by splitting volume into the number of trades and the average trade size at individual and institutional level, and realized volatility into its continuous and jump components. We find that the number of trades is the most important variable driving...

This study shows that (1) Australian analysts are optimistic in their forecasts and underreact to new information, (2) the continuous disclosure (CD) regime has a negative impact on forecast optimism and dispersion, (3) analyst forecast bias is associated with certain firm characteristics, (4)...

This paper describes a new formulation of the partial adjustment model (PAM) and its speed of adjustment coefficient. Speed of adjustment coefficients have been used to measure the efficiency or inefficiency in financial markets. Using the model by Amihud and Mendelson (1987), Damodaran (1993)...

This paper studies two contrarian strategy; one based on the Law of One Price (LOP) and another based on the Markov switching strategy. The stock pairs are identified using a new derivation of the partial adjustment model (PAM), cointegration and Markov switching is applied to the pairs. The...

Statistical international arbitrage is a well-established trading strategy amongst investment firms and hedge funds. This study tests whether contrarian (pairs-trading) strategies are profitable in Chinese and Australian markets. The profitability of these international strategies is also a test...

Under the influence of the western world, the solar New Year celebration seems to have fascinated everyone in Taiwan with the lunar New Year festivity showing much less vigor. This paper examines the impact of the solar and lunar New Years on the stock market of Taiwan, showing that the lunar...

This study is an investigation of the factors affecting the average returns of stocks that were traded on the Athens Stock Exchange for the period July 2004 - June 2011. The methodological approach is similar to that applied by Fama and French (1992), in the first stage, stocks are grouped into...

Using a unique data set that contains the complete ownership structure of the German stock market, we study the momentum and contrarian trading of different investor groups. Foreign investors and financial institutions, and especially mutual funds, are momentum traders, whereas private...