As there are many stock exchanges in the United States, investors can choose the exchange that suits their purpose and trade shares there. On the other hand, competition among stock exchanges to secure market participants is intensifying. Furthermore, some new exchanges are attempting to open in...

Tack-on bond issues are additional offerings, with the same terms and CUSIP, of an existing bond series. We provide new evidence of systematic underpricing for tack-on corporate bonds. These bonds are offered at prices significantly below their immediate post-offer secondary market prices. By...

The rapid digitisation of the world made it clear that traditional money needs to be replaced with alternatives, otherwise we risk missing out on the future. Consequently, central banks around the world are examining whether and how they can introduce Central Bank Digital Currency. CBDC has...

This study takes news observations of Chinese listed companies from 2006 to 2017 as a sample to explore how the stock market responds to news. From the perspective of limited attention, we shed light on the role of institutional investors in the above reaction mechanism. The findings suggest...

Sloan (1996) has documented the accrual anomaly-the negative association between accounting accruals and future stock returns- and many studies have tried to discover the reasons behind this market inefficiency represented by the accrual anomaly. Furthermore, the financial crisis of 2007-2008...

This study examines the price explosiveness of stocks whose purchase Robinhood restricted during the GameStop episode. We find that those “meme stocks” comprise multiple periods of explosiveness, indicating that they are unlikely to be an epiphenomenon. We also document evidence of price...

This paper studies the causal effects of personal investment taxes on stock demand, stock returns, and the financial decisions of companies. I exploit a change in legislation in 2013 which allowed stocks listed on the Alternative Investment Market, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, to...

We examine daily short-selling activity and prices around reverse stock splits. Using a difference-in-difference approach with a matched sample of reverse splitting and non-reverse splitting stocks, we show that short selling increases in stocks that reverse split, relative to those that do not....

The aim of this study is to investigate the volatility spillover connectedness between NFTs attention and financial markets. This paper firstly proposes a new direct proxy for the public's attention in the NFT market: the non-fungible tokens attention index (NFTsAI), based on 590m news stories...

We make a case that characteristics-based long-short factors should be constructed by the slope factor method rather than by sorting methods. This is because sorting does not fully control for the influence of omitted characteristics, rendering them more noisy than slope factors. In contrast,...