Daily price limits and destructive market behavior

Price limits and stock market volatility *

We examine the relationship between price limits and stock market volatility. We find when price limits are made more (less) restrictive stock market volatility is usually not lower (higher). This finding contradicts conventional wisdom and the view of most regulators.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Market Structure and Price Adjustment in the Iranian Tea Market

Entry auctions and strategic behavior under cross - market price constraints

We examine how universal service provisions and price restrictions across markets impact strategic entry and pricing. We develop a simple multi-market model with an oligopolistic (profitable) urban market and entry auctions for (unprofitable) rural service. Cross-market price restrictions induce a firm operating in both markets to become a ‘softer’ competitor, thus placing the firm at a strateg...

Price Transmission, Threshold Behavior and Asymmetric Adjustment in Iranian Poultry Market

The Iranian poultry sector has experienced many significant structural changes in recent years. Such changes may have influenced price dynamics and transmission of shocks through marketing channels especially on retail markets. This paper investigate price transmission, threshold behavior and asymmetric adjustment in poultry sector of Ardebil (AR), east Azerbaijan (EA) and west Azerbaijan (WA) ...

Collective behavior of stock price movements in an emerging market.

To investigate the universality of the structure of interactions in different markets, we analyze the cross-correlation matrix C of stock price fluctuations in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. We find that this emerging market exhibits strong correlations in the movement of stock prices compared to developed markets, such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This is shown to be due...