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Corporate directors earn abnormal returns when they buy their own company's stock as insiders. Directors also outperform when they buy stocks with an interlock connection, where a co-board member is an insider. Directors do not consistently earn abnormal returns when they sell these connected...
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This paper examines the predictive power of investment managers' sentiment revealed in their letters to shareholders … for their future performance, using closed-end funds (CEFs) as a laboratory. We find that pessimistic tone in managers … managers exert more effort when they feel at a loss relative to their reference points …
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corroborate these findings to reveal more pronounced effects when fund managers have stronger career incentives and are less …
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We show that the presence of high frequency trading (HFT) has significantly mitigated the frequency and severity of end-of-day price dislocation, counter to recent concerns expressed in the media. The effect of HFT is more pronounced on days when end of day price dislocation is more likely to be...
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It is a stylized fact that trade indicator models (e.g. Madhavan, Richardson, and Roomans (1997) and Huang and Stoll (1997)) underestimate the bid-ask spread. We argue that this negative bias is due to an endogeneity problem which is caused by a negative correlation between the arrival of public...
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Since the early 2000s liquidity in option markets has become less resilient, and our evidence suggests that it is so because of an increased vulnerability to liquidity shocks in the underlying. To demonstrate the causal impact, we consider an incident in which a large broker dealer erroneously...
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We survey the growing academic literature using Abel Noser data, including 55 publications thus far. We analyze publication patterns to explore how the availability of a specialized microstructure dataset propagates across different areas within finance and into other disciplines such as...
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We subdivide trades on the London Stock Exchange according to their reaction times. We classify an aggressive order as 'fast' if it executes against a standing limit order that is less than 50 milliseconds old. We show that fast trades are associated with smaller execution costs than slow...
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The first Exchange Traded Note (ETN) was introduced in 2006. Since then, at least 64 other ETNs have been issued, with more announced. This financial security, which is growing in number and popularity, is often confused with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and seems to be largely misunderstood by...
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Volatility trading is in vogue. Launched in January 2009, exchange-traded products (ETPs) linked to the CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) have enamored no small number of traders judging by the billions of dollars invested in these new products. Why exactly is unclear. The most popular VIX ETPs...
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